Calculus 1: Extra Practice with Integrals - Volume 2 - 5 Hour Course!

The hard part of Calc II
This material covers what is for many people the hardest part of Calc II. The area and volume integration problems and integration by parts. Jason does several problems on the disk, shell and washer methods for calculating volume, and tons of integration by parts problems. There are a couple other topics that he covers, but those are the big ones. The two things I wish he would have showed in this set was the table method for integration by parts that makes the problems much quicker and easier, and show some of the washer, shell and disk method problems revolving around the alternate axis. Even without those, he explains the concept far better than the book ever does.

There are a couple caveats I want to make. There are several integration techniques that you will get exposed to in class that are not on this or volume 1 of this set. They are however covered on his calculus 1 & 2 tutor and advanced calculus 2 tutor DVDs. This is really just fleshing out what was on...

Like having 1 out of 2 crutches.
The price of these DVD's are a bit on the high end, but it is well worth it. This professor tries his best to teach you the meat and potatoes of Introductory Calculus. The only problem with these dvd's is that they need to be accompanied by some sort of workbook in order to reinforce the concepts he is trying to teach you.He even mentions this during the tutorials, telling us to pause and do some problems on our own! I have yet to find the right book for the job. Don't bother with the Calculus for Dummies workbook, it's a jumbled mess. I'm looking for a workbook that gradually teaches you each concept through various problems ranging from easy to difficult. If any of you find it, please let me know. I'm trying so hard to CLEP out of Calculus.



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Calculus 1: Extra Practice with Integrals - Volume 1 - 5 Hour Course!

Great supplement for integrals
Anyone who has taken calculus can tell you that doing integration is the hardest part of the first-year calc sequence. And, if you do not get the concept early it will carry over into all the other courses where you need to be able to do integrals. The farther along you get, the more you are going to be expected to do them quickly.

This set really enforces the basic integration techniques. It starts out introducing the concepts and the use of rectangles to approximate the area under the curve. Jason does not spend time on things like Simpson's Rule, Euler's Method and the Midpoint Rule, which you will use in class when you first start learning integrals. So, as I have stated in other reviews of Jason's products do NOT rely on this as a substitute for class and homework. It is a supplement for a reason.

The big concepts Jason touches on in this volume are integrating polynomials, exponential, logarithms and trig functions. Then he spends a ton of time on...

A+
I cannot say enough about this and all the other math DVD's this company offers. No matter how much I read and studied my textbook, I was still having trouble with calculus so I desperately bought the video to see if it would help. What I realized is that I needed to be able to see the process over and over until I felt I really understood it. With a video, it is easy to replay the segment as many times as you need. Often, taking a derivative is not even the real problem; rather it is simplifying the answer down to the final form that I needed more help with and this DVD really helped with that. Jason offers numerous samples from the various ways that you need to take a derivative so that you can easily see the process and apply it to your own homework. I also ordered the higher level DVD's to get through Calc II. Honestly, I did not get an A, but I don't think I would have passed without the additional help these DVD's provided.

Very Helpful
This guy is good. Helped me with Calculus. I have about 4 of his dvds and they helped me pass calculus.

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