Monday, September 27, 2010

Online Study Aid For Single Variable Calculus With Step-by-Step Videos, Instructions, and even Flash cards



If you are studying for your degree online, and must take a calculus course, the concepts can be difficult without step-by-step instructions, videos, practice quizzes, and lectures. Single variable calculus step-by-step instructions, videos, practice quizzes, and lectures can all be found at the Studious Workspace site that accompanies the book, Calculus Early Transcendentals 6th Edition by James Stewart, as a companion site. The site is an excellent tool for learning calculus online with step by step videos, instructions, and even premade flash cards. It is worth the extra $15. If you want to try the system out without spending the $15 (because online college courses can be very expensive), try the trial version: http://www.cengage.com/studious/trial/workspace.jsp

Another tool that James Stewart offers his readers is Tools for Enriching Calculus, which allows you trace some graphs and view some math aids for free. This is a nice tool for visualizing some ideas, but very simple in concept.

Something else that you might want to check out when studying Calculus for your online college course are the YouTube videos of MIT online college lectures. You can find these by watching the video above on YouTube. The companion videos will be listed in the sidebar of YouTube. Click Here to watch the videos on YouTube. If you would like to view the entire course at MIT including lecture notes, video notes, assignments, and exams try this link (which can be amazingly helpful to an online college student):
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/

Happy studying! Calculus is not offered at my online college as an online class, and if it is offered as part of your online college curriculum be aware that this class takes lots of time and discipline!