Introduction to Calculus

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Taught by
David Easdown
Associate Professor
and 10 more instructors

Offered by
The University of Sydney

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r/perth • comment
15 points • RisingMaverick

University of Sydney is offering a free introduction to calculus course that starts today on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-calculus

There are lots of free maths courses on Coursera. You could have a look at any of the MOOC platforms, they tend to have free maths courses at roughly University level, e.g. edX.

r/learnmath • comment
3 points • lychee-fruit-tea

Have you tried Eddie Woo's videos? I find them very engaging and easy to digest, most of them are around 5-10 minutes and he'll split longer videos into parts so you can have a break in between. I also recommend using this Introduction to Calculus course. It's free and was what I used to get back into maths after years of work and no study.

Have you tried doing Pomodoros? They're a way of structuring work to maximize productivity and reduce burnout. The idea is you do 25 minutes on, 5 minutes off, then after 4 rounds of that you get a 15 minute break. There are apps that will do the timer for you and if 25 minutes is too much for you, you can reduce it to something more manageable - maybe 15 mins on and 3 minutes off may be more reasonable given your circumstances.

As far as I know I don't have ADHD but I do struggle to pay attention and tend to procrastinate when I'm very stressed or unwell. Pomodoros are very useful for me when I'm having one of those ruts since it forces me to adhere to some structure.

Another thing I've been doing recently is meditation. I've read this is a useful practice for individuals living with ADHD. I have been feeling more productive, less stressed and have been finding it significantly easier to sleep lately and I credit this to meditation. I only do 5 minutes a day at the moment. Force yourself to do this -- even if you can only do 3 minutes it will get easier with time and I find it very relaxing to do at the start of the day.

I hope some of this was of use to you OP. Congrats with actually putting in the effort with trying to catch up on your studies. I can somewhat relate being a mature-aged student. Studying after years of being a chronic procrastinator (mine is linked to anxiety) was a huge step for me and I felt so accomplished doing my first few lectures after years of forgetting how to do something as simple as long multiplication. You'll get there OP, if you don't make it this time I hope there's some way for you to obtain some special consideration to take into account you having to deal with a learning disability without medication. Good luck!

r/usyd • comment
3 points • Fl0ral8

This is an intro to calculus course run by USyd that's meant to get you up to speed with 2u maths:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-calculus

Personally, I found Eddie Woo's channel on YT and just listened to all the 2u maths related videos (made notes and actually learnt the material). I also went through the 2u bridging course materials but they don't seem to be up on the website anymore.

r/Calgary • comment
1 points • JCVPhoto

You may find some good support at Coursera: Intro to Calculus

r/askmath • comment
1 points • Worglorglestein

Alright, thanks! Yea I'm taking this class right now and finding it pretty interesting. Though now I'm nearing the end of week 4, working on "optimizations", and things get a little bit.. bllluhhhh huhhh?? at times.

Then I go over the same practice for like two days and ...basically.. figure out what is going on, and I'm finally starting to see how derivatives could potentially be useful in certain tasks, but it still seems a bit mind boggling lol.

r/usyd • comment
1 points • ashutoshsotuhsa

I'm not too sure about the new syllabus, because I did my HSC last year, but general mathematics contains no calculus in it. You'll therefore end up having to do MATH1111 which is a 6CP introduction to calculus unit, so you'll have to do the second option.

I did 2U in the HSC, understood all the concepts easily, but I got to MATH1011, Applications of Calculus, and I didn't know what was going on. I went and talked to the first year mathematics coordinator, and she deemed that it would be better for me to do MATH1111 to 'refresh' my calculus knowledge. But if you want to do harder calculus, I suggest doing this free online course run by the University of Sydney. Its exactly what is taught in MATH1111/HSC 2U and can be completed in a few days.

I recently completed MATH1014 and MATH1005 this past semester to fulfill the other half of the degree core requirement. Both units were pretty straightforward and concepts were easy to grasp. I woukd definately recommend doing MATH1005 if you're looking for 'easy' maths units, over the 6CP DATA1001. It has less assessments and content, which becomes easier to deal with when assessments pile up on top of each other around weeks 5/8/12.

Similarity, highly recommend MATH1014 over MATH1002 because it is an introduction unit, and is taught at a slower pace. I have a few friends that did MATH1002 and they ended up failing it because the content towards the end of term gets somewhat difficult.

Hope that helps 😊. Good luck

r/learnmath • post
2 points • imbeauleo
Sophomore in HS trying to learn Calculus

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-calculus/home/welcome Is this a good course?

r/learnprogramming • comment
2 points • Alaharon123

>Any recommendations?

Yes. Lots. Honestly I'd recommend just ditching this and going with OSSU as someone else recommended or sticking with TeachYourselfCS and only making the following changes

  1. Start with high school math in parallel to CS50 or a different step 0 item
  2. Learn Single Variable Calculus alongside 61A. Note that you have many overlapping resources there. I would probably actually go with Khan Academy's AP Calculus AB material followed by UPenn's five part Calculus series on Coursera (finish Calculus AB before the next step, but you can do UPenn's course alongside the next two steps)
  3. Do Hug's 61B at https://datastructur.es
  4. Follow TeachYourselfCS from Computer Architecture and on, switching the order of Math for CS and Algorithms and Data Structures (since you'll have already done 61B and will be taking SBU's Algorithms course)

This way you'd get high school math done before starting 61A, you'd get in a sort of CS0 course before 61A since it seems like you're nervous about that, you'd learn C early on, which will prepare you for Computer Systems, you'd have 61B in there to give you more programming experience and learn the data structures material that would be learned on the job, learned on one's own, or learned in SBU's prerequisite course to algos, and most importantly, you'd have a minimal amount of overlap along with a maximum amount of coverage.

To go through what you have though:

Step 0 is too much intro stuff. You're doing self-paced. You don't have the problem of learning on campus where things get overwhelming because you're not learning fast enough to keep up. You will learn at the pace that you'll learn. So you don't need that many intro courses. At the very least ditch one of automate the boring stuff, cs50, and 6.00.

Step 1 and 4 I don't know enough about those materials to comment specifically, but they definitely feel like too much

Step 3 has a couple problems. First, if you need to relearn high school math, you need to get started on that right away alongside your first programming course, not push it off until past even Computer Systems and Architecture. Second, AP Calculus BC, Essence of Calculus, and MIT Calculus all cover the same material basically. Essence of Calculus is great as a supplement to other Calculus materials, but there's no reason to do both Khan Academy and MIT. Third, I'm pretty sure UC San Diego and MIT are teaching pretty similar material. I'd go with MIT for the higher amount of coverage since you're willing to do Calculus first so you don't need that lower prerequisite and you're not planning on doing UC San Diego's follow-up algorithms course anyway. Fourth, Linear Algebra you should probably learn but is optional, the rest only learn if you feel like it.

And that's all the comments I have because I'm not familiar enough with the other material to make comments. Well, I suppose I'd recommend checking out Introduction to Calculus and seeing if you can pass the quizzes without watching the lectures or if it feels familiar in which case you can skip high school math and just start with that course watching lectures as needed and moving on to Calculus II or UPenn's Calculus series afterwards rather than relearning all of high school math before taking a Calculus course. Now that's it.

r/math • comment
1 points • brunnian

Try some of these

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/free-courses

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-calculus

https://www.edx.org/course/subject/math

r/learnmath • comment
1 points • Anrdeww

Here's a radically different idea:

Skip highschool math, jump right into calculus. Professors tend to review the relevant background as it comes up. It'll be more efficient to specifically review the ideas you're missing, rather than trying to brute force learn all the material. Plus, then when you start university calc, you'll have seen the material previously and will have a much easier time staying on top of it. Here'sa bunch of places where you can start learning calculus online.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-calculus#syllabus

https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus

https://www.edx.org/course/calculus-1a-differentiation?index=product&queryID=e312a884a6f51007ae5025604dc08a21&position=1

https://www.edx.org/course/calculus-applied?index=product&queryID=e312a884a6f51007ae5025604dc08a21&position=3

This one is precalc:

https://www.edx.org/course/precalculus?index=product&queryID=e312a884a6f51007ae5025604dc08a21&position=5