Calculus

At my school we just finished registering for next year's classes. I filled my schedule completely with AP classes... and art. My former algebra 2 teacher is the one teaching Caluclus next year, and she did everything in her power to try to keep me from taking it after I slept through her algebra class, and didn't finish any of the homework. This year though, I'm finding trig to be extremely easy (cause i'm not sleeping in class) and so I decided to go ahead and take calculus.

Has anyone here taken the class yet? I've heard some horror stories, but then I've heard that about most classes and I haven't had problems yet. Is it as hard as people make it out to be?

I'm taking calculus next year too. Math is easy, geometry is easy, alegbra is hard, but if I put a bit more effort into it, I'll do fine. Brtish lit. is the hard shit.

Calculus is incredibly easy. At least at the AP level.

hm yeha but then it gets a bit harder at calc II level.
i am gonna take stat next year

And I trust KevC, he finds it easy and he isn't even Asian.

I'm taking it next year too. Apparently the teacher at my school gives great notes.

And I trust KevC, he finds it easy and he isn't even Asian.

I'm taking it next year too. Apparently the teacher at my school gives great notes.

0_o
koreans dont count as asians

calculus was not bad in high school for me.. i did very well in it.. but then again i use to really like math
Take it what the heck... what's the worst it can do to you? Expose you to college level work?

^^That's the idea. I have to take a course like that first year college anyways.

And I trust KevC, he finds it easy and he isn't even Asian.

I'm taking it next year too. Apparently the teacher at my school gives great notes.

lol I'm asian and I found high school AP calc to be challenging, but doable.
it helps because at most universities it exempts you from at least one calc class, but you'll still wind up taking it in college anyway.

here at UC Irvine, I took the first two calc classes and it was COMPLETELY different from high school calc, and being kinda lazy, I didn't do so hot.

Last time I had Calculus was 2 or 3 years ago during my sophomore year in college and I got a D but it was mostly my fault coz I was always absent or not listening

What exactly is calculus? I think I do it at school, but we call it something different

Calculus YUCK!

What exactly is calculus? I think I do it at school, but we call it something different

it's a branch of math that involves limits of functions, derivatives, and anti-derivatives, among other things.

Oh ok... we just call that Differentiation, and its easy as piss. We are doing it at the moment in class

Once you know the rules (really, really simple) you should be able to do it without any hassles. It will help if you can sit next to someone who understands it, and can help explain the basics to you in laymans terms - thats what I missed the first year I did this.
This year, my teacher is pretty stupid, which actually helps as he is able to teach on a level I can understand, and it has made calculus a breeze.

I think diffferentiation is just part of calculus. there are still lots of things that they teach in calculus especially in the advanced levels

Differentiation is only a part of Calculus. There's also Integral Calculus, it's the reverse of Differential Calculus. The horror stories are overrated, even in the college level. Algebra is easy, I found Geometry in college a bit difficult because it's too formula dependent and rigid in terms of specific formulas, it doesn't give you a chance to really derive different formulas. Once you know Calculus, you find out that most Geometric formulas can be derived from just one formula using Calculus.

I think calculus was the most enjoyable part of math that I've taken. I found it to be easy, though it looks complex and difficult to do, it's really easy when you apply the logic and the rules.

Calculus is difficult...sorry for the late reply but I stumbled upon this while searching for a previous thread.

I took Calculus in my freshman year and it was so difficult it nearly got me suspended for a semester from college due to low GPA. Calculus involves massive memorization. Now this was a college course , so the high school class was probably easier , but my days of differential and integral calculus involved me memorizing a bunch of useless formulae , hours of working on a problem only later to find that the solution doesn't match the one given in the book , and hours of time spent wasted in a computer lab listening to boring lectures and then programming in MATLAB.

I can only advise you this : Take Calculus as early as you can because they are more lenient in high school. Calculus in college is hell on earth.