<p>I'll be taking it next semester since it's part of my major requirements. Calculus I was quite a challenge for me since it has been six years since I did math of any kind.</p>
<p>Plus I already know the professor teaching it since I took him for the first-semester calculus course, and he's not great at explaining it so I'll be doing major self-studying.</p>
<p>What are some good tips or methods those of you that have taken the course can suggest to do well in the class?</p>
<p>google search adrian banner calculus videos. His lectures are the best.</p>
<p>Just read the book and do the exercises in each section. It’s an easy peasy computation class.</p>
<p>Read the text book and do practice problems, that goes for just about every technical or analytical class you will ever take</p>
<p>If you find your textbook unhelpful, try a different one. Is it possible (to wait a semester in order) to get a better professor? Your life will be a lot easier if you keep up with the class instead of cramming for exams. If you aren’t comfortable with taking derivates, I would brush up on those skills.</p>
<p>There are a lot of things that you can do to learn calculus if you’re willing to accept ownership of the learning process. You can start with iTunesU. A number of colleges have entire calculus courses available online. So you can actually “take” the class from a great professor, while taking the tests and turning in homework for the class taught at your school.</p>
<p>Studying is very important. You can search the web and find a number of websites with tips on how to study calculus. But the most important thing in taking a math or science class is not turning pages in the book or taking good notes, but working out problems. </p>
<p>There are books called “the calculus problem solver” or something to that effect that you can get from your local bookstore or online. These books have thousands of worked problems. The way to use them is turned to the section that corresponds to what your classes covering, then cover the answers and start working problems. Check your answers against the book, and keep doing this until you getting them right.</p>
<p>If you’re serious about doing well, you’ll have to put in the time. A good rule of thumb is to expect to spend nine hours per week studying the book and working problems.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the suggestions…</p>
<p>I’ll definitely take up some of the suggested ideas, especially iTunesU and stuff. And since I’m only taking that class next semester, well along with Chinese but I’m a native speaker, I’ll be focusing all my attention on that…</p>