W. Michael Kelley taught high school mathematics for seven years before leaving to work at the University of Maryland College Park Education College. After serving as the Director of Teacher Preparation at the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence for nearly 10 years, he now works for Laureate Education, developing online coursework for colleges and universities.
His life goal is to make math hurt less.
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W. Michael Kelley is a former award-winning calculus teacher and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Precalculus, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Algebra. He is also the founder and editor of calculus-help.com, which helps thousands of students conquer their math anxiety every month.
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78 of 80 people found the following review helpful:
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Great tool for learning calculus,
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This review is from: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math (Paperback)
I'm not very good at math but with this book's help, I'm doing well in calculus. I frequently find myself saying "well, why couldn't the textbook just say that??" after reading the explainations given by Kelley. Things are very simplified but not so much that important information is left out. Another great aspect of this book is that it covers all of the important topics. Other math self-help books seem to leave out the one topic I need help with but this book aligns very well with the text I'm using (Thomas' Calculus Early Transcendentals). This book is definitely worth the $13. Highly recommended!
77 of 79 people found the following review helpful:
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Help us dumb ones!,
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This review is from: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math (Paperback)
So what makes this book different than the other books. I've tried Dummies, Demystified, and even the same authors book, Complete Idiots Calculus. This book assumes you are a total idiot at PreCalc, that's what I needed. I was taking a Calc class after being out of school for 5 years and I don't even remember any PreCalc and all the other Calc books assume you know the basics. So they skip over all the simple steps because you are suppose to know them to do calculus. But I don't remember any math at all so I had a hard time. This book explains all the simple steps too that's why it's better than the other help books on Calculus. Good luck to you too.
52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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If only I had THIS in AP Calculus and Calc I-II in college...,
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This review is from: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems: For People Who Don't Speak Math (Paperback)
This is the best calculus book I have ever seen. The author really does understand that quite a lot of people (like myself) struggle with calculus even if they have been strong math students prior to calc. His "refresher" section is very thorough, and I learned things that I never learned the first time around (synthetic division, the formula for factoring a "non-simple," let's call it, quadratic, and a couple of other things). This is in spite of the fact that I (barely survived) Calc III.
When it comes to the calculus portions themselves, somehow Kelley makes sense! I don't know how he has managed it, but he has created maybe the first understandable calculus text. High schools that teach AP Calculus AB and/or BC, and colleges and universities, need to scrap their "mathematically heavy" textbooks and replace them with this. Ok, colleges and universities will never do this, thinking that they are training mathematicians and such, but if you struggle with even the "pencil-pushing" parts of calc (like I did), how are you going to be able to understand proofs, etc. anyway? All high schools should use this. Students' AP scores would thank them for it. I was an A or A+ student in math my entire life until I got to calculus...and then this subject made no sense to me at all and I really could not, for the life of me, understand or solve the problems. It really is a different kind of math, no matter what anyone says. I aced algebra, trig, and pre-calc, so that wasn't the problem. This book really deserves all the praise it receives. Go through this, then get a supplemental text such as Schaum's to work more problems.
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A proper and rigorous understanding of linear equations and their standard forms, linear segments and the associated algorithms, systems of multiple linear equations, and linear inequalities is an essential prerequisite for the study of calculus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
apply variable substitution, term divergence test, inequality using interval notation, average value formula, particle traveling right, bounded byf, power rule for integration, representative radius, washer method, rational integrand, using variable substitution, darkened rectangle, sign graph, coterminal angle, logarithmic property, secant line connecting, dotted graph, semicircle with radius, limit comparison test, slant asymptote, horizontal major axis, solid graph, horizontal line test, logarithmic properties, particle changes direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A proper and rigorous understanding of linear equations and their standard forms, linear segments and the associated algorithms, systems of multiple linear equations, and linear inequalities is an essential prerequisite for the study of calculus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
apply variable substitution, term divergence test, inequality using interval notation, average value formula, particle traveling right, bounded byf, power rule for integration, representative radius, washer method, rational integrand, using variable substitution, darkened rectangle, sign graph, coterminal angle, logarithmic property, secant line connecting, dotted graph, semicircle with radius, limit comparison test, slant asymptote, horizontal major axis, solid graph, horizontal line test, logarithmic properties, particle changes direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Apply the Pythagorean, Use L'Hôpital, Calctnltns Problew, Use Euler, Apply Simpson, The Htnw New!
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