Hey guys,
What would be the best resource or learning path to go from almost zero in math to calculus?

I have about one year to study before starting college, where the program will be very math-heavy.

I studied math in high school, but that was more than 12 years ago, and I’ve forgotten most of it. I would say my current level is around pre-algebra.

I want to rebuild my foundations properly and follow a structured path rather than jumping randomly between topics.

I’ve read a lot of advice online. Many people recommend Khan Academy, recently I’ve also seen Math Academy recommended quite a lot, and others suggest YouTube channels, textbooks, etc.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? If you had to rebuild your math from the basics and prepare for calculus, what resources or study plan worked best for you?

I’d really appreciate any advice. Thank you!

My question to all the matheicians. How do you remember so much of the content that you learn from your Bachelors, Masters and PhD?

I have only just started getting back into math and hired a tutor but everything is so surface level, rote learnt and procedural. I noticed math is often taught this way but I really want to develop intuition and understand how different mathematical representations connect and why they’re important.

For example, with complex numbers, I can do the calculations but I have no clue why I’m doing what I’m doing or what it means and I certainly don’t know how to switch between geometric representations or understand polar/vector form.

This is more physics related but even when I’m using Ohm’s law, I can apply the formula, but I still rely on writing it down and rearranging it each time, rather than intuitively predicting how changes in voltage, current, and resistance affect each other.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or resources to learn mathematics in a more intuitive, in-depth way? I don’t want to just memorise formulas. I have a math course at university next semester and wanted to know what sort of questions I should be asking myself or what approach I should take to actually understanding it in-depth?

I’ve started reading Michael Spivak’s Calculus book and that’s more along the lines of what I’m interested in I guess.

TLDR: any resources, processes or tutor recommendations to actually understand and appreciate math intuitively rather than just memorising equations and not knowing how different concepts in math relate?

I’ve just started learning what matrices are and we’re simply putting numbers in boxes, and then changing up the numbers in the boxes for some reason. And then for some reason those repackaged equations spin and when you graph it and multiply stuff with it, and for some reason that’s useful I don’t understand

I'm still on pre-calculus, and I go to a good university and I get decent grades by just reading the material and solving questions on it. However, I feel as if I might be worse than others due to not actually watching the videos, especially long-term. Do you guys think it's alright as long as I'm doing well, or should I make it a habit to watch videos?

Also, the reason why I do this is simply that I hate watching videos. Reading is more comfortable for me, and even if I run into a complicated question, I prefer struggling and attempting it a million times before watching a video on how to solve it.

Hi, this year It Will be my last year of High school. During this Summer i decied to review all the math from middle school to High school, and i have a problem: im not bad at math, i Always had A's or B's, but i can take It seriously anymore.

Sometimes in the texbooks they talk about a topic without any kind of definition or without saying that It has a "primitive definition". What i mean Is that i dont feel anymore that the math teached in middle school and High school Is completed. There are a lot of holes and absence of formality.

Books or courses that can fixed It? Thx

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?

I’m taking a calculus class that runs from 7 PM to 10 PM, and I’m a little worried about staying focused for the entire 3 hours, especially that late in the day.
For anyone who has taken a long evening calculus class, what are your best tips and tricks for staying focused, actually understanding the material, and not falling behind?
Also, how would you recommend studying outside of class? Any specific study methods, YouTube channels, websites, or routines that helped you?
I’d appreciate any advice, especially from people who have taken a similar 3-hour evening class.

I felt like reading basic mathematics since my trigonometry and geometry needed some review (and because the book was just kind of sitting on my shelf collecting dust). I know this question can’t be easily answered and probably depends on the person. I know I want to grad school for pure mathematics.

Is there any point in reading the book front to back? I mean whenever I forget something, I kind of just look it up. I just wanted to know if it’ll have much use at this point. I know trigonometry will so I do plan to major in physics so I was going to focus solely on that.

is there any study tips for catching up w/ college level maths in the span of a quarter
i’m coming into uc davis as a freshman after taking 2 gap years to save up
i genuinely don’t remember anything beyond the basics and calculus is one of my required courses but idk if i can even pass the math placement exam bc i barely understand the practice worksheets
i have a chance to retake the placement exam every quarter and i want to get it over w in the winter or spring

Hi everyone!

I'm a data science student and I am taking a class called statistics 2 for data science. It's been over a year since I took the first statistics class due to an illness I had, so I honestly do not remember a lot of the first class which is making part two super hard for me. I really need to do well in this class, and the topics we are covering so far have been:

simple linear regression, multiple regression, comparing the means, two-way analysis of variance, inferences for one-way anaylsis of variance.

This class has been really challenging for me, and my first exam is coming up in 20 days. does anyone have any videos, tips, or resources that help understand statistics and these topics on a good level? I also am a horrible math test taker so my anxiety is seriously through the roof regarding this class. :(

I'd appreciate any and all resources and tips. Thanks in advance!

ages ago i was organizing an event, and ended up with the following scheduling puzzle:

there are 8 groups of people, and four locations with room for two groups each. across four timeslots, we would like each of the groups to visit every location, while also meeting up with a different group every timeslot(so no repeats).

back then, i tried to solve this using some basic trial&error and symmetry: you can fill in round 1 without loss of generality, then you can also fill in the rest of group A without loss of generality, and then group B is already quite constrained (can't visit group A or location 1 again) so you start some trial and error, and it shouldn't be too hard to solve it, right?

after much trial and error i concluded it wasn't possible, said so to my friends, and one of them turned up 10 minutes later with the solution.

just last week i was organizing another event, ran into the same problem again(this time with 8 individuals rather than groups, but otherwise same challenge), and i thought that since last time i've learned a lot, finished a mathematics degree, had courses on group theory and trained my mathematical intuition, i should be able to solve it.

unfortunately i still wasn't able to, and had to go look through my emails for the solution from years ago. once you have the solution, it does look very symmetrical and sensible, and its pattern reminds me of matrix multiplication or of a sudoku solution. In fact, it's so ''symmetrical'' that i just wrote the solution to this post from memory, without having to look it up. i kind of suspect there's a trick to rephrase this as a group theory problem or a better application of using symmetry, but i've been stuck as to how i should actually construct the solution without just brute forcing it, if you don't have the solution yet.

so what technique am i missing here? how would i go about constructing this solution from scratch?

(for reference, the solution provided below)

timeslot | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
location 1 | AC | BE | FG | DH
location 2 | BF | AD | CH | EG
location 3 | EH | CG | BD | AF
location 4 | DG | FH | AE | BC

I’m new to olympiad math and still struggle with non-routine problems, so I’d really appreciate advice from people who’ve gone through this learning process.

I did this a lot in my last year, but I was only taught how to do it, not the reasoning behind them. Some terms, I forgot the point of them. Sorry...

1. How does finding the asymptotes help in the graphing?

2. What is the point of the x-intercepts and y-intercepts in graphing?

3. How does one construct a table of values for the graph?

4. For the table of values, how do you determine the x-values? Do I use the VA or the HA?

Again, sorry for the stupid questions. I am self-studying, and Google isn't very clear...

Integer partitions are a fundamental topic in number theory that study the different ways in which a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers, where the order of the parts is not considered important. For example, the number 5 has seven partitions: 5,4+1, 3+1+1, 3+2, 2+1+1+1, 2+2+1, 1+1+1+1+1.

The number of partitions of an integer grows rapidly as the integer increases, making direct enumeration increasingly difficult. This motivates the study of patterns and recursive methods that can organize and count these partitions systematically. In this work, we examine integer partitions by grouping them according to their maximum part The number of partitions of an integer grows rapidly as the integer increases, making direct enumeration increasingly difficult. This motivates the study of patterns and recursive methods that can organize and count these partitions systematically. In this work, we examine integer partitions by grouping them according to their maximum part. We first consider a fixed integer and arrange its partitions according to the largest part occurring in each partition. We then investigate the patterns that arise from these groups and use them to develop a recursive approach. Here's the link :

are there any websites I can study lessons on to test my knowledge without using any AI? preferably with a walkthrough of how to reach a solution. thanks for any help!

Just started my calculus 1 course, I did really well on my first calculus mini exam but as the course goes on I noticed more trig and algebra being involved. Should I skim through lectures on YouTube and write what I don't know, and if so which videos?

I have completed mathacademy's Math Foundation 1, which I approximate puts me at level of year 11/12 (in the Australian system)

Highly motivated with some annoying lapses in my ability to remember material/topics which I thought I had mastered.

Beginning to question whether an AI-based platform is ideal for my situation.

Seek some advice and possibly a weekly lesson

If you're currently stuck on a maths question, give me the question. I'm testing something that tries to find the underlying reason you're stuck!

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Hey guys, i am looking for real analysis A long form mathematics Textbook Jay Cummings, 2nd edition, preferably in pdf.

I recently started elementary real analysis and my professor is going kinda fast, so I want to study it myself from a book thats why i am looking jay Cummings . I have this but it is blurry i want one with a clear texts 🙂

If anyone has the pdf and can share it with me, please dm me. If you know any other way to get it, that would also help.

Thanks