Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children

Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by WalterBright on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:23PM (#12445751)

Calculus has a myth built up around it on how hard it is. A kindly professor once showed me how it worked in about a half hour, and I was like "is that all"? Of course that wasn't all, but that bit of help served me very well for years of more advanced math.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by corysama on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:54PM (#12446008)

Would you have a reference to similar material I could spend a couple hours on?

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by WalterBright on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:52PM (#12446866)

The video series "The Mechanical Universe" has a very similar and simple explanation.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by saint_fiasco on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:08PM (#12446193)

I tried to learn calculus a couple of times but always get stuck on integrals. I'm pretty sure when I was 10 I would also have gotten stuck there.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by nitrogen on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:15PM (#12447130)

Forget the algebraic mechanics of symbolically evaluating an integral -- let a CAS do that for you -- and just focus on the relationship to the shape of the function being integrated.

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