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Title: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math
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| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha okay |
| This book is good in showing many if not all types of problems for Pre cal review and calculus but its name deceives. I was hoping that it would have practice problems. All does is that it shows you how to solve a type of problem, just once. Its a good aid for those taking calc classes, but its not as good for self study. For that The Calculus Lifesaver is much better to learn calculus, and standard textbooks or workbooks are better for providing practice. |
| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha I don't speak math... |
| This book is truly written for people who really do not speak math...like myself! I understand what he writes about...and my calculus text is ridiculous to try to understand. This seems to be the perfect compliment to a class. Highly recommended. One thing I do wish is that there was some space between the problem and the solution so that we could try to work the problem out...but then the book would be even bigger and that's not practical. I guess just keep on with sliding the paper down the page... |
| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha If only I had THIS in AP Calculus and Calc I-II in college... |
This is the best calculus book I have ever seen. The author really does understand that quite a lot of people (like myself) struggle with calculus even if they have been strong math students prior to calc. His "refresher" section is very thorough, and I learned things that I never learned the first time around (synthetic division, the formula for factoring a "non-simple," let's call it, quadratic, and a couple of other things). This is in spite of the fact that I (barely survived) Calc III.
When it comes to the calculus portions themselves, somehow Kelley makes sense! I don't know how he has managed it, but he has created maybe the first understandable calculus text.
High schools that teach AP Calculus AB and/or BC, and colleges and universities, need to scrap their "mathematically heavy" textbooks and replace them with this. Ok, colleges and universities will never do this, thinking that they are training mathematicians and such, but if you struggle with even the "pencil-pushing" parts of calc (like I did), how are you going to be able to understand proofs, etc. anyway?
All high schools should use this. Students' AP scores would thank them for it. I was an A or A+ student in math my entire life until I got to calculus...and then this subject made no sense to me at all and I really could not, for the life of me, understand or solve the problems. It really is a different kind of math, no matter what anyone says. I aced algebra, trig, and pre-calc, so that wasn't the problem.
This book really deserves all the praise it receives. Go through this, then get a supplemental text such as Schaum's to work more problems. |
| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha Mistake |
I bought this for the number of problems and the easy communication. And they are good.
When he looks for critical numbers (possible max and min) where the FIRST DERIVATIVE EQUALS 0... He just found the zeros of the function. This is a big mistake and will not help on the AP Calc test, if my interp is right. If I am wrong, please, someone correct me. |
| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha Poorly translated for someone who enjoys math |
| I purchased this along with Kelley's "IDIOT's GUIDE TO CALCULUS". Neither was of much help. I expected to find problems worked out step-by-step to aid in my homework only to be very disappointed by the lack of content in the books. I am a person that enjoys the challenge of math and found these books to be lacking the help a student is probably seeking. None of the book's examples walk you through entirely. |
| The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math by Alpha Product Description |
| Now students have nothing to fear … Math textbooks can be as baffling as the subject they’re teaching. Not anymore. The best-selling author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus has taken what appears to be a typical calculus workbook, chock full of solved calculus problems, and made legible notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying solutions. Finally, everything is made perfectly clear. Students will be prepared to solve those obscure problems that were never discussed in class but always seem to find their way onto exams.
--Includes 1,000 problems with comprehensive solutions
--Annotated notes throughout the text clarify what’s being asked in each problem and fill in missing steps
--Kelley is a former award-winning calculus teacher
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