Tired of Calculus Teachers and Textbooks That Make no Sense?
Calculus can be beautiful and fun. Once you start to understand it, that is. If you have or had trouble "getting" it, it is because you never formed an intuition of the basic concepts. That's not your fault, you know.
Most teachers and textbooks present the concepts as these super-hard-and-abstract things. They show you equation after equation and you don't have idea what those weird symbols mean.
In this site you'll learn calculus by forming an intuition of the concepts. You know that feeling when something just clicks in your head, right? You'll get that often here.
After you get those, the equations will just flow out of your brain.
Let me ask you a question. What do you think you will remember better. Something like this?
Or something like this:
The graph is more useful, isn't it?
Let me tell you a secret...
The difference between students that get A's and the rest is in how they approach learning. It's not intelligence!
"A" students form an intuition of the concepts, using a graph like this one, for example. The rest just nervously
copy the formulas the teacher writes on the board, then they try to memorize.
Another example. Will you remember this?
Or this:
Of course, after you formed an intuition, writing the equation will be easy for you with some practice.
Maybe you already get calculus and want to learn more. This site is also for you! Or maybe you are a teacher and are
looking for some teaching material. You'll find lots of that here.
Don't think of this site as a textbook. I don't intend to replace your book or your teacher.
Think of me as your best friend that understands some math. Maybe think of me as your older brother. I'm not a super genius, I just happen to
like math and teaching.
Ok, let's get started...
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