I am in AP Calculus BC which is pretty much like completing calc 1 and 2 with two periods this semester and one period next. I just really don't fucking understand it. It's not like I am stupid or anything, it frustrates the hell out of me to not be able to grasp what is going on. I don't understand the homework, which makes me not want to do it, then I don't understand the quizzes.

I have a decent grade in there as of now, I can still recover it. But I just need help, I need an easier way to understand calc.

Suggestions of how you got yourself through calc, or how you study or ANYTHING would be appreciated. THANKS

You'd be better off posting specific problems. What about it don't you understand?

If you can't even grasp basic high school calculous your not going to do well in university. You will be mediocure, get an average job, and live a boring life.

What was your previous math class? How far are you into the course? What are you having trouble with? Like l33t-hax0r said, give us some specific problems or concepts you're having trouble with. There's certainly no shortage of people on totse who've completed high school calc.

Like others have said, your best bet is posting specific problems or concepts you're struggling with. However, in terms of really understanding calculus, you should make you have a thorough understanding of what a function is. Not just a function is something involving x like x^2, but a real understanding of what they do and are. After that, become extremely familiar with the concept of limit, and how to employ it rigorously.

I only mention these two things because I think most teachers tend to breeze over these things because they think they are too abstract and won't help you take derivatives and integrals later on, but if you want to understand what you are doing later, understand these two things. Besides that, just post some problems you're having trouble with, because practice is the best route to learning calculus.

Excuse me for my rant earlier I was just having trouble with my homework and I got frustrated.

My calc class is covering calc one and two AS THEY WOULD IN COLLEGE, and I shall receive college credit for both of the classes if I score a three or above on the AP exams.

I have completed math into Pre-Calc and I have completed science into physics.

As a senior I am enrolled in AP Clac BC (three periods per two semesters, covers calc 1 and 2) and AP Physics BC (three periods over two semesters, covers kinematics and electromagnetism also with AP exam at the end of the year).

On top of playing varsity football and also taking ENGLISH 4 and WORLD GEOGRAPHY, the other two are quite the task. English and GEO only matter because besides essays and advanced grammar both of those classes are mostly busywork.

Go to bitch and moan

You're supposed to take AB before you take BC, dipshit. You should at least know how to take a derivative and find the area under a curve. then you have to learn u substitution, integration by parts, trigonometric integration, trigonometric substitution, etc.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

or wikipedia

No, the BC course is just slighlty more comprehensive and not a continuation of the AB course.

Before you flame me and make yourself look uninformed, Calculus BC is calc 1 and 2, and calc AB is just calc 1.

thank you for your input though!

I was fortunate to have a really good teacher for maths.

Like others have said, post problems you have trouble with, and we can talk you through them.