I’m taking Calculus I and this is the first year for my professor teaching. In fact, he’s a student himself and the class has been messy.

First, he doesn’t grade the assignments, and there’s been issues with us getting 0’s. Then he waits 40 minutes before lecturing, he lets us try to figure it out the problems on our own but the class is only 60 minutes. So a lot of time he’ll run out of time or other times he’ll solve the problems wrong and won’t notice until the very end.

Then today, he handed me the wrong worksheet for a different week, so the entire class I was doing wrong problems. Any tips for learning calculus on my own? This is my first time doing Calculus so I’m very confused.

Khan Acdemy and chat GPT 4 for further explanation of concepts and problems

Use KA for lecture replacement and intro to concepts and then have chat GPT 4 as a private tutor to design learning plans and Q&A about specific topics or HW problems

At this point u need to leave college i dnt thnk iv evr told someone tht but they setting u up or smething is happening to work against u idk man u gnna post how u have a killer outside ur dorm room next and we nevr gnna hear from u

show up to class, practice everyday, you likely need to teach yourself and fight for your grade all semester lol

take notes with a basic example of each concept, make flashcards with steps to solve each type of problem, and cheatsheets and use them to solve practice problems, keep track of the mistakes you make (why you get problems wrong)

you have to be sharp on your algebra, trig, geometry

calc 1 should go something like functions, limits, continuity, limits to infinity, basic derivative rules, chain rule, implicit differentiation, linearization, graph shape and extremums, optimization, related rates, riemann sum, definite and indefinite integrals, logarithms, exponentials

take a week or two to study each topic deeply and practice until you can do well on exam

Stick to fapping man

Since he's not a tenured professor you should get some classmates together to report him. Good chance that'll make him clean up his act or they might replace him.

Just read the textbook

Actually If u can just find a different professor

If it's too late just know that u should always find the best professor u can for math courses don't let your advisor choose your class ask professors for guidance because they ALWAYS know who the good teachers are

Being successful in college is just 90% knowing the methods to finding the right courses and professors, I failed Calc 1 my first try then aced it later with a different professor

Don’t need professors for math. It’s all right there for you on YouTube.

Took AP calc in high school and my teacher could barely speak English. Just taught myself on YouTube and got 5s

Just learn the formulas and how to do the problems on YouTube and then do problems over and over again

Same goes for most sciences too

Even at school OAK getting screwed

make another reddit post

Guy is literally cursed with bad luck or something

uh just "parrot" the textbook

I feel u I got this old ass dude as my Calc professor who's unintelligible because of his speech impediment and he doesn't even bother having a functional course page online.

More OP victimizing himself

I've been using Khanacadey and GPT but sometimes GPT is wrong. I've also been using YouTube videos. The issue is that I feel behind, I am stuck trying to figure out estimating the functions/limits? while the professor is covering derivatives.

It's not all bad. It's just I have had a lot of crazy things happen in a short period of time.

Thank you!! I have been taking notes while watching the videos on khan academy. It has been quite a challenge trying to pay attention and write notes down though, I feel like the second I look away the equation changes lol. Our exam is on Thursday and I know we'll be tested on derivatives, hopefully Iwith repetition it will click. Those graphs can be confusing.

Anyone telling you this is on u is kinda crazy

Yes, you can teach math yourself, but you shouldn't have a useless student wasting half the class before he actually "begins" the lecture. Nobody pays for college for that

I agree. So far i've been using Khan academy and organic chemistry tutor on YouTube. The last math class I took was in 2021, so repetition is the probably the only way I can get all this to click under a short period of time.

Did you look at his rate my professor before

He was the only professir remaining when I enrolled

Tell him you own several firearms

took like 5 years between calc 1 and calc 2 and when i followed calc 1 on khan academy to refresh before the semester i found it 10x more understandable than when i took it in school