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The focus and themes of the Introduction to Calculus course address the most important foundations for applications of mathematics in science, engineering and commerce. The course emphasises the key ideas and historical motivation for calculus, while at the same time striking a balance between theory and application, leading to a mastery of key threshold concepts in foundational mathematics. Students taking Introduction to Calculus will: • gain familiarity with key ideas of precalculus, including the manipulation of equations and elementary functions (first two weeks), • develop fluency with the preliminary methodology of tangents and limits, and the definition of a derivative (third week), • develop and practice methods of differential calculus with applications (fourth week), • develop and practice methods of the integral calculus (fifth week)....

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JP

Oct 9, 2023

Great course, the professor explains with excellent examples and the exercises really reinforce the material and are challenging. Thank you for offering this great courses from excellent universities.

AF

Apr 8, 2022

An excellent course, especially if like me you had done some calculus in the past and wanted a refresher. David is an excellent, clear, and attentive tutor. I can't recommend him enough. Many thanks.

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By Julie B

Aug 13, 2024

There were several problems with this course. First, the instructor was very difficult to hear because he did not appear to have a microphone and also because he would no enunciate. More importantly, he made leaps in logic that no one could possibly follow. I kept asking things like Why can we do it that way? Why would we do it that way? How does this apply to real-life? And especially, how does this link to what I have already learned in the lower maths? None of these were clearly answered, so I felt like I was just being taught something with no links to my current knowledge. This was a real slog and, although I finished it, I do not feel like I understand the topic clearly. Lastly, the timing was way off. While a person with background in algebra could make it through the first three modules fairly quickly, it needs at least three weeks for each of the last two modules, not one week. I liked the the teacher was enthusiastic about his topic, but he clearly does not remember the struggle if he thinks his students will understand what he is talking about.

By Chrismi L

Nov 29, 2024

Vos vidéos ne sont pas à ma langue compréhensible. La traduction là distrait un peu. Comment faire pour lire les cours en Français ?

By JOY, Z H

Aug 7, 2020

The Patterns are a bit lengthy but its interesting.

By Stan M

Feb 14, 2021

dropped

By Kenny D

Apr 17, 2024

terrible mic quality. a lot of static

By Moodi A

May 10, 2023

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