Thursday

The Plan

Where should I go If I really want to read text?
I would go to http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursedoc/math100/notes/index.html because the style that it was written in is easy to follow. Unfourtunatally unless I want to read all of http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf then I'm not going to get a lot of information other than derivatives.
Where should I go if I want to learn Visually?
http://www.calculus-help.com/tutorials would be the place to go, It was actually one of my favorites. I liked this because it was the most purely visual one I found, while other sites had diagrams (which were useful) I found this to be the best for me
Where should I go if I want to prepare for a Quiz by doing extra questions?
As I said this one was difficult to find something. What I decided was that looking back at worksheets and looking at some of the other websites on here would be more benificial.
What Calculus Help video website should I use, should I want to watch a video?
http://www.khanacademy.org/ would be the website I would use if I wanted to watch a video. I thought I would like watching videos, but unless I'm teaching myself the whole class, I don't see that I would want to use videos much. While they are good and informational, and probably some of the easiest things to understand, I don't usually want to spend all that time watching a video. They are nice if you don't get a specific rule (chain, quotient) because you can watch a quick video on them.
Where should I go for Pre Calc Review?
For a good Trig review I would use the Wiley PDF http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/anton/0471472441/appendices/appa.pdf . This may be because I'm used to their formatting since i've used it in other classes, but I really do believe that their text would be helpful to anyone.
Where should I go if I want someone (real person) to help me?
http://www.freemathhelp.com . This was an overall helpful site, and was a favorite of mine.I would use this one if I had an hour or more to get the answer, but If I was in a pinch I would probably use http://answers.yahoo.com/ just because answers come very fast.
What graphing calculator should I use?
I am sold on
http://rentcalculators.org/stheli.html for most everything graphing. It is the most familiar, compared to the TI 83+ that I use. The only problem is it doesn't show discontinuities on the graph (does on the table). For showing discontinuities I would use http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/, I would also use this for a general calculator, whereas the first doesn't have one. Between the two I can do a good amount of things that I could do with my actual graphing calculator.
How I found all of my sites?
I primary used google.com and calculus.org . Calculus.org was very helpful in finding sites, because they had sites listed by sections. While they didn't have everything I wanted they had some things that I couldn't find on Google. Between the two I believe I found nice sites for most of my questions.

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