>>11990319>brute force memorization doesn't work at allyes
>training/practice doesn't work at allno
Can you do basic fucking prealgebra? Fractions, solve single or simultaneous linear equations, find roots or apply the quadratic formula? If not, then you don't deserve to graduate anyways. (This is perhaps why it's not recommended you wait 4 years between high school math and college math.)
If you can, then literally just do practice problems over and over again. Don't try to memorize solutions or methods, that's not what the class is trying to teach you. Find multiple sources of practice problems; maybe the ones your teacher or textbook gives you are shit. Repeat.
Calc is about understanding a few really basic concepts -- the derivative and a basic limit -- and finding lots of applications, especially to physics. The individual applications don't matter; it's about getting comfortable with the meaning of a derivative and being flexible enough to apply it to situations you haven't seen before.
If you can't take a word problem and convert it into equations, then again, you should have done that in high school and thus don't deserve to graduate college. From there, get some concept of what being or taking the derivative would do in that context.
