How should I self-study calculus? So I already took Pre-Calc, and ended up with a B both semesters. I am an incoming senior in high school. My special-ed case manager won't let me take it because she doesn't want to see me panic (crazy, right?). But, for some reason, I really like math. Is there a way for me to self-teach myself Calculus I or Calc I and II before taking it at college? I already have Humongus book of Calculus Problems and PatrickJMT on YouTube (My favorite math youtube channel). 
 A: I can't believe no one has mentioned Khan Academy! You can work all the way thru Calculus I and II for sure online. The lectures are great and the assessment format is excellent.
A: There are many ways you can learn calculus. There are many textbooks out there dedicated to calculus, such as Thomas' Calculus, Stewart Calculus, Spivak Caclulus (more rigorous than the other two and is meant as an introduction to real analysis), high school calculus books, etc.
There is a professor called Paul and he has a lot of good notes on algebra, calculus I, II and III and differential equations on his website. Go on the 'Class Notes' tab and choose the course you want.
If you like video lectures, then I think the best courses are MIT OCW single variable calculus and multivariable calculus courses, which you can find here.
A: Depends how you naturally prefer to learn, but if you're like me and like an intuitive taste before the formalities, Calculus I and Calculus II are very good video introductions on Coursera. There are many additional courses such as Massively Multivariable Open Online Calculus Course with gradual "inline" mini assessments. Also, I find the University of Colorado's video lectures absolutely indispensable. For the latter make sure to choose a year/semester with a lecturer you "gel" with.
A: Stewart Calculus. Don't do Spivak, that is just too much in my opinion. Just start from the beginning of any edition of Stewart Calculus. Section by section work a good amount of problems, to ensure you are learning. Trust me you want a good base to start from in order to get into more theoretical/rigorous calculus.
This is coming from someone who took calculus in highschool, then went 3 years in undergrad before realizing their passion was in math. Took calculus II at my university and didn't even know the unit circle. One year later I found myself in noneuclidean geometry, probablity, real analysis I and topology in the same semester. Got 4.0s in both Real and Complex analysis, and I credit a lot of that success to the strong base I built from with that Calculus II course where we used Stewart Calculus books. 
Trust me you want to learn to walk before you try to run.
A: Download the first edition of Gilbert Strang's Calculus ,available here and get yourself a copy of Adrian Banner's The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus, which you can get a used copy of at Amazon for just over 4 bucks. If you carefully work your way through both those sources, you'll be well on your way to mastering basic calculus and the legion of applications that are it's lifeblood. Don't worry about a rigorous formulation right now-your concern right now has to be mastering the basics. If you study both those sources diligently, you'll be well on your way to doing so. You can worry about a careful formulation after that. One step at a time. 
A: I would recommend Thinkwell Homeschool. You don't have to be a homeschooler to use it (though I am). It can be taken as a full course or used to supplement another. They offer three calculus courses: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC (link in the sidebar), and plain-old "college" Calculus (I and II combined).
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A: I took differential calculus twice at two different colleges and it still took me at least another decade before I understood it. It is a simple subject but not the way it is taught.
Differential calculus is the study of one particular property of functions. So it is absolutely necessary that you clearly understand what functions are including graphical form, what it means that they have properties including point properties, and what some of their properties are before you go on to differential calculus.
The point property being studied in differential calculus is the slope (aka "rise" or "grade") of a function which is expressed as a different function of the same independent variable as the original.
Differential calculus is not about limits. The use of a limit is simply a device to enable us to formally obtain the derivative of a particular function. In practice only mathematicians use it. As an analogy, a gun is used by a holdup man but holdups are not about guns. In fact the slopes of a constant function and a linear function are clear without using a limit.
You'll learn the derivatives of the elementary functions, notation for the derivative, properties of the derivative, applications of derivatives, higher order derivatives, and why some functions don't have a derivative at some points or even at any point!
It is customary to teach differential calculus formally and abstractly which completely obfuscates the subject.
Integral calculus is the study of a different property of functions and it too is not about limits.
Bon voyage.
A: There are several
 classic books that provide preparation in calculus. James Stewart's Calculus (8th edition) 
is one of the most widely used text books, covering the usual differential, integral, and multivariate calculus. Ron Larsons' Calculus
is a popular alternative to Stewart, and covers similar material. I personally used Serge Lang's A First Course in Calculus  The American Institute of Math (AIM) has an open text book initiative for free online books. Several online calculus books are linked.MIT’s Open Courseware Single Variable
 Calculus and Multivariate Calculus are free online courses with video recorded lectures and accompanying notes.The Kahn Academy provides free online courses for the calculus sequence: differential calculus, integral calculus, and multivariate calculus.AP Central has resources for AP courses and exams in calculus.Exams with solutions, has links to calculus exams throughout American universities.The website
 calculus.org offers 
extensive links to study and exam problems, online course notes, videos, and calculators. However, the page ha
s not been kept current, though, and some links are broken.
