01-19-2008, 08:46 AM
This, the last semester for my senior year, I have got a math independent study, which is cool because normally my school doesn't have independent study for specific subjects, but it's right there on my schedule!
The topics I plan to study are some advanced ones which I have forgot. I have to review trigonometry and some basic algebra, as these are essential to understanding calculus. I want to get into the study of multivariable calculus, too (AP Calculus only covered single-variable differential and integral calculus). I also plan to study number theory, topology, and chaos theory, the last of which being the only one I haven't studied much (that and multivariable calculus).
Math is my favorite subject, and the one I'm very best at, despite my not being able to do basic arithmetic most of the time. However, my first semester this year, I didn't have a math class, as we didn't have anything beyond AP Calculus, and I wanted to study more advanced subjects, anyway. Although I probably would have taken a more advanced calculus course at the community college, my schedule was full of other classes, and I didn't want to bother taking a placement exam.
So my question is: for those who have studied some of these advanced maths, do you know of any good online resources, such as a forum or online lecture notes or an informative site or something? The teacher listed on my schedule, she is the teacher for academic lab, which is usually where people who need extra academic help will go to, and she doesn't know the math that I will be studying.
I am very glad to have this opportunity, as I learn best by reading from a book, or otherwise doing something myself. I would like to know if there is anybody who can point me to some resources, that might be conducive to my set-up.
Also good news! I am officially registered in my US History course at the college. This should be much easier than my high school history course, which required extensive, daily homework assignments and group work, all to cover information I already knew, and the tests were not weighted heavily at all (I think less than 50%), whereas homework was worth a lot (I thiink even 60%).
The college course, however, weights the exams (including the final) to be 70%, the other 30% being in-class discussion, which comes a lot more naturally to me than I thought it would.
I got a C and a D in my high school US history course. Let's see what I get in this one!
The topics I plan to study are some advanced ones which I have forgot. I have to review trigonometry and some basic algebra, as these are essential to understanding calculus. I want to get into the study of multivariable calculus, too (AP Calculus only covered single-variable differential and integral calculus). I also plan to study number theory, topology, and chaos theory, the last of which being the only one I haven't studied much (that and multivariable calculus).
Math is my favorite subject, and the one I'm very best at, despite my not being able to do basic arithmetic most of the time. However, my first semester this year, I didn't have a math class, as we didn't have anything beyond AP Calculus, and I wanted to study more advanced subjects, anyway. Although I probably would have taken a more advanced calculus course at the community college, my schedule was full of other classes, and I didn't want to bother taking a placement exam.
So my question is: for those who have studied some of these advanced maths, do you know of any good online resources, such as a forum or online lecture notes or an informative site or something? The teacher listed on my schedule, she is the teacher for academic lab, which is usually where people who need extra academic help will go to, and she doesn't know the math that I will be studying.
I am very glad to have this opportunity, as I learn best by reading from a book, or otherwise doing something myself. I would like to know if there is anybody who can point me to some resources, that might be conducive to my set-up.
Also good news! I am officially registered in my US History course at the college. This should be much easier than my high school history course, which required extensive, daily homework assignments and group work, all to cover information I already knew, and the tests were not weighted heavily at all (I think less than 50%), whereas homework was worth a lot (I thiink even 60%).
The college course, however, weights the exams (including the final) to be 70%, the other 30% being in-class discussion, which comes a lot more naturally to me than I thought it would.
I got a C and a D in my high school US history course. Let's see what I get in this one!