Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Does anybody know where to find a good (and free) internet Calculus I tutorial?

Possibly equipped with videos?





Thank you!Does anybody know where to find a good (and free) internet Calculus I tutorial?
Khan Academy also has a website


http://www.khanacademy.org/authenticate.鈥?/a>





I dont much like the guy though... talks to slow, reiterates everything before doing it again... and three minutes into his 5 minute video he starts the lecture. He spends the first couple of minutes of every video recapping the material from the last video, which you just now watched and have no need to recap... and if you watched it a while back and forgot, there is no reason not to watch it again, no point moving forward if you dont have the prereqs down... and so I despise the fact that he reviews anything. He could spend those minutes explaining the new material instead of wasting video time reviewing material that is just a click away anyway. And he has made mistakes on top of it, which I have called him out on, and he had to make new videos to cover his bum.





Pauls Online notes are GREAT


http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/





On youtube there is also the Headlessprofessor... who does the ocassional math video... fairly well, too





Wolfram is a website that is more technical, but it has some info...





Dont sell Wikipedia short though.





And there is also Wikibooks, which has entire e-books on calculus.





I never heard of patrickJMT though, so I cannot reflect on him.





There are a few generic layman sort of wiki's that are getting off the ground, devoted to math. Here is one such wiki that I myself have contributed to


http://math.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page





There are also math discussion forums and such. You can ask questions there





If you need a question answered, yahoo answers and yedda.com and answerbag.com are all good places to ask





And there is also a http://www.teachertube.com (TeacherTube)... its like youtube... except its entirely instructional.





Tutor.com is a tutoring site, but you need to pay to have access with a tutor, one-on-one via the net.Does anybody know where to find a good (and free) internet Calculus I tutorial?
Pauls Online Math Notes: covers Calc 1, 2, 3, Diff Equations, and Linear Algebra. Very good source to learn and review your math.





go to youtube and search khan academy: has lots of good calc and differential equations videos. gives clear intuitive explanations!





also check out patrickJMT on youtube or search on google ';just math tutoring';. has lots of good calc videos for a variety of different calc topics.

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