Math help resource?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I've never been the strongest in math and I'm committing myself to overcoming my current attitude toward the subject. It doesn't come naturally to me so I tend to look for a lot of help outside of class. Does anybody know a good book or website I should use during the upcoming year? Thank you.</p>

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<p>khanacademy.com</p>

<p>artofproblemsolving.com</p>

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<p>Sorry for double posting. But by the way, do you resources on any particular area of math or any course?</p>

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<p>Calculus. I’ve always struggled and I have to work extremely hard to grasp the ideas. It’s without a doubt my most difficult subject.</p>

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<p>AoPS Calculus textbook is pretty good, IMO. I never used the book (although I’ve used other AoPS books), but I looked at the excerpts. The way that the material is delivered, plus the additional rigor, make the subject challenging, yet easy to understand.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=calculus[/url]”>http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=calculus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>If you’re having difficulty, I would suggest using Khan Academy and then supplementing it with either the MIT OCW Scholar course for Single Variable Calculus (google it), as Khan Academy will give a very good introduction while OCW and AoPS tend to go very in-depth. Look at OCW and the excerpts of the AoPS Calculus book on artofproblemsolving.com, and if you find either very difficult even with Khan Academy, then I suggest using a regular calculus textbook such as Calculus by Finney.</p>

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<p>Thank you all. I appreciate it.</p>

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<p>@rspence: By the way, what’s your username on AoPS?</p>

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<p>I second [Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org%5DKhan”>http://www.khanacademy.org) , I’m a 4.0 student but Mathematics is my weakest subject. I’ve moved from C’s to A’s in math after discovering the website.</p>

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<p>In addition to the above, PatrickJMT is really helpful as well.</p>

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<p>@cranski</p>

<p>That’s exactly how I am. Math gives me fits constantly. I’m just concerned that if my math continues to be like this, my higher level sciences will suffer and keep me from pursuing my dream.</p>