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About the Course

The focus and themes of the Introduction to Calculus course address the most important foundations for applications of mathematics in science, engineering and commerce. The course emphasises the key ideas and historical motivation for calculus, while at the same time striking a balance between theory and application, leading to a mastery of key threshold concepts in foundational mathematics. Students taking Introduction to Calculus will: • gain familiarity with key ideas of precalculus, including the manipulation of equations and elementary functions (first two weeks), • develop fluency with the preliminary methodology of tangents and limits, and the definition of a derivative (third week), • develop and practice methods of differential calculus with applications (fourth week), • develop and practice methods of the integral calculus (fifth week)....

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JP

Oct 9, 2023

Great course, the professor explains with excellent examples and the exercises really reinforce the material and are challenging. Thank you for offering this great courses from excellent universities.

CL

Nov 13, 2021

thanks coursera and Professor David Easdown for suitable instruction and friendly methodology after calculus which course to carry in advancement

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By Mangi L V

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Apr 15, 2020

Excellent course!!

By RAGHUL B

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Jul 10, 2020

Its very helpful

By Poloko M

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Apr 29, 2020

Best course

By PRIYADHARSHINI R

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Jun 8, 2020

Calculus

By Darmawan P

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Mar 20, 2021

Good

By Sean K

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May 28, 2020

Good

By Daniel C

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Sep 18, 2019

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By Nathan M

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Jun 29, 2023

The class did not feel like an introductory course and was very difficult to complete the assignments in the allotted timeframes so it was a constant crunch to beat the clock. I also did not feel like the answers were thoroughly explained at times and required outside research to figure them out.

By Brian G

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Jun 14, 2023

The title of the course is a bit deceiving because it assumes the student has some familiarity with calculus. My advice is that if you don't already have some knowledge of both differential and integral calculus, this course is definitely not for you.

By Kennedy B

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Nov 20, 2023

There is content on the quizzes that is not covered in the course. Quite a bit of prior knowledge is assumed. I had to do outside reading to prepare for the quiz. Frustrating and discouraging!

By Brook H

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Jul 26, 2020

This wasn't for me. The pace was either too slow and way below what I needed or when areas were on topic, they still didn't make sense.

By Prakash K A

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Sep 25, 2020

very well

By Julie B

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Aug 13, 2024

There were several problems with this course. First, the instructor was very difficult to hear because he did not appear to have a microphone and also because he would no enunciate. More importantly, he made leaps in logic that no one could possibly follow. I kept asking things like Why can we do it that way? Why would we do it that way? How does this apply to real-life? And especially, how does this link to what I have already learned in the lower maths? None of these were clearly answered, so I felt like I was just being taught something with no links to my current knowledge. This was a real slog and, although I finished it, I do not feel like I understand the topic clearly. Lastly, the timing was way off. While a person with background in algebra could make it through the first three modules fairly quickly, it needs at least three weeks for each of the last two modules, not one week. I liked the the teacher was enthusiastic about his topic, but he clearly does not remember the struggle if he thinks his students will understand what he is talking about.

By JOY, Z H

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Aug 8, 2020

The Patterns are a bit lengthy but its interesting.

By Stan M

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Feb 15, 2021

dropped

By Kenny D

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Apr 18, 2024

terrible mic quality. a lot of static

By Moodi A

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May 10, 2023

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