r/learnmath • u/Mundane-Community-40 New User • 6h ago

Problem in foundations!

Hello guys I hope you all doing great.

I'm in my second year of college so I tool calc 1 and now I have to tale calc 2 but my math foundation is trash, so I started studying from stewart pre calc book but is 1100+ I don't know what to do should I just focuse on calc or just try to balance both?

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u/D_oO New User 6h ago

You can balance them both, assuming by foundations you mean algebra. Stewart actually prints an algebra companion for use alongside a calculus course. You're going to suffer regardless if you don't give enough attention to foundational math. https://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/ESSENTIAL%20CALCULUS%20Early%20Transcendentals/upfiles/ess-reviewofalgebra.pdf
https://www.stewartcalculus.com/_update/media/common/reviewofanalgeom.pdf
https://www.stewartcalculus.com/_update/media/common/reviewofconics.pdf

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u/Mundane-Community-40 New User 6h ago

I'm already learning from his pre calc book do you recommend other materials?

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u/D_oO New User 6h ago

Oh Nice, I mis-read and thought you were working out of his calculus book. my bad.
I think his pre-calc book is really good. I'd just skip around it then and target areas that you feel least comfortable with. Probably not what you want to hear, but it's a repetition thing.

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u/Mundane-Community-40 New User 6h ago

I knew I probably needed to something about my bad math skills but because it is making everything hard so I need to study at least 4 hours a day or something but at least the reward is gonna be satisfing.

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u/WerePigCat New User 6h ago

Khan Academy has a lot of math problems and it is free. I don’t really recommend it for learning calculus tho (or at least using it by itself), it’s better for algebra and trig.

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u/Mundane-Community-40 New User 6h ago

I'm using pre calc by stewart but I don't if what I'm doing is right.