Quote (Kamikizzle @ Jan 9 2013 12:28pm)

google khan academy and search whatever topic in math youre doing. they have a ton of really really good podcasts on this kind of stuff

Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ Jan 9 2013 12:27am)

Might be more suited to Homework Help, but I think this is probably as good a place as any.

Like any good humanities major, I bitched out on math and just took Stats so that I never had to look at another math class again.  I've always been pretty decent at math, though I'm certainly no savant.  I just have a decent head for following a set of complex rules.  Probably all them RPGs.

Anyway!  I'm starting with this course: http://www.themathpage.com/aPreCalc/precalculus.htm

Am I going backward by doing Pre-Calc before Trig?  Just dipping my toe into it, and the warm familiarity of the first two lessons is finally giving way to functions and letting me start to get my pinky toe wet in this shit.  Does this seem like an even remotely good idea?  I eventually want to get into Calculus.  Basically, the goal is to get good enough that I can get into teaching Math, though I'd rather stay down in the Algebra/Geometry ghetto.  But that might just be because I don't know how much I love Calculus or something. 

Anyway, I swear this isn't just a bragging thread, I know that JSP has a lot of math nerds, and I'd love to hear some opinions from people who have taken higher maths that might give me some good guideposts as to what I'm getting myself into (or who can convince me that this is a fool's errand and I really ought to take a class.  Or who can just recommend sites with lots of practice homework.)

Quote (TIMMY213 @ Jan 13 2013 04:45am)

Once you learn the concepts, just do as many practice problems as you can find at all levels of difficulty. Once you have a strong 'toolbox' for mathematics you'll find you can learn a semester's worth of content in a few weeks if you simply read the notes once and then blast through as many practice problems as you can get your hands on to explore the concepts. Tested working for mathematics up to 2nd year university level, and mathy papers after that like finite element analysis and control theory.

A lot of people hype up calculus as some sort of mathematical pinnacle of difficulty. It's not, you can derive the foundation of differential and integral calculus from first principles on one side of a napkin.

Quote (Mastersam93 @ Jan 9 2013 07:49am)

I failed AP Calc, but I passed the AP test, so get at me.