<p>Calculus is hard, especially when your teacher pretty much sucks at teaching. It's been over 2 months now and I'm struggling in this class. We had a test today and I BOMBED it :.</p>
<p>So I've deiced to take initiative and seek help outside of class. One thing that's I really need is a good math book that can "dumb down" all the freakishly completed concepts (or at least they seem that way, given that my school's text book, like my teacher, sucks). </p>
<p>I've looked at Calculus for Dummies, and the Princeton review book, but I wanna make sure I go with the absolute best choice. I need to keep this class from being my GPA tanker. </p>
<p>I don’t know any specific books off hand but in general you usually can’t go wrong with the big name books (X for dummies, Princeton Review, Barron’s, any slew of other AP review books…). I also wouldn’t write off the wealth of self-help tools available on the internet. I would recommend that you check out Khan Academy (if you haven’t already), it has a pretty thorough and high quality playlist for all levels of math from arithmetic to differential equations. You can watch them at your own pace, do the practice exercises, go back to lesser advanced playlists to review concepts from earlier courses, etc… I’ve found it really helpful, especially when you’re having trouble grasping major concepts.</p>