Taking Calc II after two years of not being in a math course, so I can relate to an extent. How far did you get in math courses before now? I may have some good pages of trig identities and derivative/integral rules I can send your way (for making flashcards or flat memorization) alongside a cool trick for knowing your unit circle. All of which I'm currently using to brush up myself, hehe. FYI, I was just notified that khan academy expanded their math section to cover college level maths and calculus (and higher) if you're able to learn by that method. They also provide practice problems. Dusting off cobwebs using baby steps (reviewing one sheet of identities per day) has been most helpful for me.I'm about to start up college again after having taken a four year break. . . . I'm also taking Calculus and an Economic Statistics course.
I just took a precalculus course in a local community college, which was enormously helpful. I actually loved the class, as basic as it was. It has me jazzed for the upcoming semester. The only downside is that ratemyprofessor has the calculus professor I'm slated for as apocalyptically bad. I'd appreciate any help I can get. I love learning with Khan Academy, as well as Mathway and WolframAlpha. Invaluable.
Awesome! I'll scan some of the materials after class today. Smart move finishing that course off so soon to going into Calc. Finding I've still been needing refreshers 2 weeks in. For better or worse, Calc 1 and 2 tend to be the weed-out courses for the math areas. Most professors I come across while searching for professors happen to have abysmal ratings and happen in massive auditoriums.
Thanks! Im trying to acquire every leg up. I started a video lecture series on calculus, but I've been so busy that I haven't devoted as much time to it as I'd like. But I'm really happy with the timing of my precalculus as well. I also am reading Calculus Better Explained and it's interesting! I'm happy to learn the math in a way that I understand it, and not have a "fragile knowledge" as R. Feynman puts it.