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Reddit mentions of The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides)

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We found 15 Reddit mentions of The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides). Here are the top ones.

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Found 15 comments on The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides):

u/kypronite · 5 pointsr/learnprogramming

I highly recommend this book for learning calculus.
I faced same problem as yours with calculus and this book helped me alot.

u/mkat5 · 5 pointsr/math

In the lead up to calc first thing you want to do is just make sure you're algebra skills are pretty solid. A lot of people neglect it and then find the course to be harder than it needed to be because you really use algebra throughout.

Beyond that, if you want an extra book to study with and get practice problems from The Calculus Lifesaver is a big book of calculus you can use from now and into a first year college calculus course. If you do get it, don't worry about reading the whole thing from cover to cover, or doing all of the problems in it. It is a big book for a reason, it definitely covers more than you need to know for now, so don't get overwhelmed, it all comes with time.

Best of luck

u/sordidarray · 3 pointsr/math

Check out Adrian Banner's The Calculus Lifesaver for a companion to a typical undergrad introductory calculus sequence and the accompanying videos from Princeton.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/learnmath

Grab The Calculus Lifesaver and a textbook. Gilbert Strang has published a calculus text that is free. Alternatively, you can grab a used copy of Larson or Stewart.

Also, review your algebra and your trigonometry. Good luck!

u/pinxox · 3 pointsr/learnmath

Don't feel too bad. Of the entire calculus series, students tend to have the most difficulty in Calc 2.

Other than the numerous Calculus video lectures and tutorials you can find online, I found The Calculus Lifesaver to the most helpful. Since there are very few problems, it's supplementary material and not meant to replace your textbook. Its author, Adrian Banner, is a math professor at Princeton and his lecture videos can be found online. What I liked about The Calculus Lifesaver is that, for the most part, Banner teaches his classes in the same order as he presents in the book, therefore it's much easier to follow along.

u/Airballp · 3 pointsr/princeton

The single best resource for 103/104 is The Calculus Lifesaver by Adrian Banner. There's a book and a series of recorded review sessions. I stopped showing up to 104 lectures when I found these because they were so much more thorough than the classes. Banner also did review sessions for 201/202 when you reach that point, which are equally good.

u/bluestrike2 · 2 pointsr/politics

Completely off-topic, but stick with it. I had the same problem. Then everything will start to fit together. In the meantime, might I suggest Adrian Banner's The Calculus Lifesaver as a really approachable second textbook/help guide/reference?

/tangent

u/jctapp · 1 pointr/learnmath

The best way to learn is take the class and find your deficiencies. Khan Academy is also great to get a base line of where you are. If you need help with calc. And precal, calculus lifesaver book is good.
lifesaver calculus amazon

u/legogirl · 1 pointr/learnmath

This book and his videos: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Lifesaver-Tools-Princeton-Guides/dp/0691130884

I was good at calculus, but this book made anything I struggled to fully understand much easier. He does a good job of looking back at how previous work supports and and talks about how this relates to future topics.

u/SoundTheUrethras · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

Well the good news is that we have more resources available now than even 5 years ago. :) I'm in calc 1 right now, and was having trouble putting the pieces together into a whole that made sense. A few of my resources are classroom specific but many would be great for anyone not currently in a class.

Free:
www.khanacademy.org

free video lectures and practice problems on all manner of topics, starting with elementary algebra. You can start at the beginning and work your way through, or just start wherever.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

free online courses and lessons from MIT (!!) where you can watch lectures on a subject, do practice problems, etc. Use just for review or treat it like a course, it's up to you.

Cheap $$

http://www.amazon.com/How-Ace-Calculus-Streetwise-Guide/dp/0716731606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331675661&sr=8-1

$10ish shipped for a book that translates calculus from math-professor to plain english, and is funny too.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Lifesaver-Tools-Excel-Princeton/dp/0691130884/ref=pd_cp_b_1

$15 for a book that is 2-3x as thick as the previous one, a bit drier, but still very readable. And it covers Calc 1-3.

u/maxximillian · 1 pointr/EngineeringStudents

These are the two things that saved my ass in calc 2:

this book, the calculus lifesaver
and this guy, Mr. McKeague from MathTV

u/truckbot101 · 1 pointr/math

Hello!

It's been a while since I last suggested a resource for calculus - so far, I've been finding the following two books extremely helpful and thought it would be good to share them:

  1. The Calculus Lifesaver
    http://www.amazon.com/The-Calculus-Lifesaver-Tools-Princeton/dp/0691130884/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398747841&sr=8-1&keywords=the+calculus+lifesaver

    I have mostly been using this as my main source of calculus lessons. You can find the corresponding lectures on youtube - the ones on his site do not work for whatever reason. The material is quite good, but still slightly challenging to ingest (though still much better than other courses out there!).

  2. How to Ace Calculus: The Street-Wise Guide

    When I first saw this book, I thought it was going to be dumb, but I've been finding it extremely helpful. This is the book I'm using to understand some of the concepts in Calculus that are taken for granted (but that I need explained more in detail). It actually is somewhat entertaining while doing an excellent job of teaching calculus.

    The previous website I recommended to you is quite good at giving you an alternative perspective of calculus, but is not enough to actually teach you how to derive or integrate functions on your own. Hope your journey in math is going well!

u/juicyfizz · 1 pointr/learnmath

I took both precalc and calc 1 back to back (and we used Stewart's calc book for calc 1-3). To be honest, concepts like limits and continuity aren't even covered in precalculus, so it isn't like you've missed something huge by skipping precalc. My precalc class was a lot of higher level college algebra review and then lots and lots and lots of trig.

I honestly don't see how you'd need much else aside from PatricJMT and lots of example problems. It may be worthwhile for you to pick up "The Calculus Lifesaver" by Adrian Banner. It's a really great book that breaks down the calc 1 concepts pretty well. Master limits because soon you'll move onto differentiation and then everything builds from that.

Precalc was my trig review that I was thankful for when I got to calc 2, however, so if you find yourself needing calculus 2, please review as much trig as you can. If you need some resources for trig review, PM me. I tutored college algebra, precalc, and calc for 3 years.

Good luck!