Question

So I went on the Session 2 page and I clicked on the lecture but it was the same exact lecture as the one in Session 1? What do I study in Session 2 exactly?

Answer 1

To be sure: Is this the page you visited?
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/1.-differentiation/part-a-definition-and-basic-rules/session-2-examples-of-derivatives/

Try clearing your browser cache and history, and give it a try.

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

Ah.. I see it now. Sorry I thought Section 2 was a new lecture video. I normally download the videos and watch them, then directly hit the problem set.

Here's the deal: Section 2 is also from Lecture Video 1. Go below a bit, you'll find this text

"Clip 1: Example 1: y=1/x (9 min)"

Click on it, and the video will start from somewhere in the middle. I hope this solves it for you.

Answer 4

Yes, for all sessions, don't click that top level video. This is the master video of the full classroom lecture from which our topic sessions are extracted. For each topic session, you want to scroll below the top video and click on the bite-size topic clips. You will notice that there could be maybe 8-10 bite-size clips over two or three topic sessions to cover all the material in one top level video. Think of it this way - the MIT students cover all that material in a single lecture of 60 minutes or so. But we have the luxury of taking our time and really concentrating on each clip before moving forward.

Answer 5

The lecture excerpt videos are rather snafu'd throughout the course. It is really bad when you get to linear/quadratic approximation. I suggest you download the whole lectures from the links provided, and use the pdf notes and problems as a guide to what material is expected from each section.

Answer 6

What I did with the first session, and I may do it when I get to three and beyond, is

1. Watch the entire one-hour lecture straight through without taking notes
(taking notes distracts my mind)

2. Then I print all the accompanying PDF files for each clip.

3. I read the PDF file that accompanies "Clip 1" then I watch "Clip 1"

4. I try my best to pause the video once he presents an equation, then I try to solve it the same way that I might vaguely remember from watching it on the straight-through lecture; then I unpause the playback to see if I got it.

5. I repeat steps 3 and 4 for each clip.

Whatever method you use should work out. Good luck.