<p>Because we all know Textbooks are completely useless. Any good prep books out there for Multi-variables?</p>
<p>Multivariable calculus? When you get into college, there will be virtually no prep books for at least most of your college classes, including multivariable calculus. The only thing left is your textbook. Besides, I have not even seen a prep book for multivariable calculus in my life yet and the reason is that it’s usually not taught in high school.</p>
<p>Seriously?..Why? No publishing prepbook company has ever thought of “hey, let’s make a prep study guide for Multi-variables!”?</p>
<p>What’s the point? It’s not like there’s an AP exam for Multivariable. Plus if there was a prep book, it wouldn’t help much to get an A in multivariable calculus in college.</p>
<p>Nope, and it’s easy to see why they haven’t. Prep books are made almost exclusively for high school students. Less than 1 percent of high school students take multivariable calculus. It would be a waste of money (what these companies care about) to publish such a book.</p>
<p>What do you mean less than 1%? Aren’t Bachelors of Science very popular? They aer like second next to Bachelor of Arts.</p>
<p>Multivariable calculus is almost NEVER offered as a class in high school. Most kids don’t even reach AB Calc, let alone BC.</p>
<p>But there are GRE books, aren’t there?</p>
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<p>@ Newaccount I disagree. More and more schools offer Multivar Calc, which makes me ****ed about my own high school.</p>
<p>Btw, prep books, like Schaum’s Outlines?</p>
<p>Not really, Multivariable Calculus is a usually a college level course and is the last segment of required calculus a person has to take if majoring in science/math. </p>
<p>Moreover, the highest level of math would be Calculus BC by senior year since Algebra is considered highest level a seventh grader can take.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, there’s Schaum’s Outlines for some college courses, but the textbooks are usually better in explaining concepts and providing thorough examples, in general.</p>
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<p>I think it will</p>
<p>refutation: professor can make a subject really difficult at times.</p>
<p>It helped me get through AP Calculus BC (well I self-studied…)</p>
<p>What other resources should I seek if I get stuck on a problem in Calculus III? Professors cannot handle 100 people.</p>
<p>nothing but your textbook and the professor’s lectures can help you and that’s what it is generally like in college–no prep book (unless you’re preparing for grad school exams)</p>
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Not necessarily.
7th Pre-Alg
8th Alg 1
9th Geo and Alg 2
10th PreCalc
11th Calc BC
12th Multivariable Calc
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<p>your school is a different case and I do acknowledge that some high schools in the U.S. are lucky enough to teach Multivariable Calculus. I even heard that some schools make Multivariable Calculus part of the BC course.</p>
<p>But usually, highest math class seniors can take up to is Calc BC.</p>
<p>I’m guessing most of the posters in this thread have never done MVC material. Lemone: there is no prep book for MVC because it would be useless. MVC generally consists of 4-5 topics: vector calc, partial deriv, multiple integrals, intro lin alg. These form the foundation for a lot of higher level math topics, and the subject is not very broad. It is the depth that gets people, and that can only be helped by practice. A prep book is meant to breeze over topics in a broad course: MVC is not such a course.</p>
<p>So is AP Calculus BC, I mean AP Calculus BC only has like 4 broad topics</p>
<p>Limits, Derivatives, Integrals and Sequence/Series.</p>
<p>A prep book teaches the course. I mean I got a 5 with three prep books.</p>
<p>too bad prep books can’t get you anywhere in college</p>
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<p>That’s childish. AP exams can’t even begin to scratch the depth of calculus. Read a book by Spivak or Apostol and you’ll understand where I’m going. Getting a 5 will get you college credit, but it does NOT mean you know calculus. Here:</p>
<p>[The</a> most enlightening Calculus books | Math-Blog](<a href=“http://math-blog.com/2007/05/13/the-most-enlightening-calculus-books/]The”>http://math-blog.com/2007/05/13/the-most-enlightening-calculus-books/)</p>
<p>Look through that and maybe you’ll realize your folly. If you study math via a prep book, you don’t learn it - you simply memorize it. There’s a HUGE difference.</p>
<p>BC has 4 broad topics, but they’re compartmentalized and the exam goes a little into each subtopic. MVC has 4 topics that are basically just that, and it goes relatively deep into each one. </p>
<p>Here’s an MIT final for it’s intro calc course, which is basically BC. </p>
<p><a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/478FAEB0-7EFD-4DEA-A37D-D6212249EA22/0/ocw01f05final.pdf[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/478FAEB0-7EFD-4DEA-A37D-D6212249EA22/0/ocw01f05final.pdf</a></p>
<p>Look through the problems and think if you could honestly do those just with your ap review book knowledge.</p>