Question

Plz help me in getting my maths basics cleared in one month. guide me about books and way of study?
Hi i am 1st year engineering student my maths is very weak i am having 1 month winter break starting today. please help me how can i improve my maths basics as well as master it in 1 month how to go which books to follow and all that please help also i will denote 7-8 hrs daily for it please help

Answer 1

honeslty, after getting my BS in engineering, the most helpful thing for me has been to know Algebra. since you only have 1 month, i'd suggest buying a college algebra textbook and study it hard. ^_^

Answer 2

thing is that my weakness in calculus and basic maths formulas of like boardmass and all that

Answer 3

so you make mistakes when doing formulas? and calculus is hard for you?

Answer 4

myopenmath.org
free online algebra course (choose intermediate) complete with video examples of everything. I took that course after a 30 year layoff from school, my last class was intro algebra in 1979. It allowed my to jump straight to precalc on my placement test.

Answer 5

and what about calculus how to ace it

Answer 6

the only way to get better at calculus is to study the chapters you are bad at. and if you can't understand those chapters, then go back to earlier chapters.

majority of math builds on prior chapters

Answer 7

any book suggestion

Answer 8

use the book You Learned Calculus out of

Answer 9

but that is quit confusing

Answer 10

confusing meaning that even chapter 1 is confusing?

Answer 11

no but i have the governmental book only (ncert) and i contains all in summarized form only

Answer 12

oh,
find a calculus textbook. any college level textbook will do.