Book Review: Calculus for Dummies Education Bundle

 

This bundle contains the Calculus for Dummies book and corresponding workbook. The book itself mostly has explanatory material, written much more concisely than what you get from the textbooks, and has a lot of good tips for solving problems. There are some example problems and problems meant for people to work out, but most of the problems are in the workbook. That is light on explanatory material (just repeats the basics) but has quite a few problems from the various concepts.

This covers derivatives and their applications like related rates and optimization, and integration and its applications. For some schools that is pretty much all of calc 1 and most of calc II. For other schools, it would be the entire calc I curriculum. It really just depends on how the classes at your school split up the material. It does not cover multivariable calculus, linear algebra, or differential equations, which in some schools are generally covered in calculus 3 and calculus 4. It is not as big as a textbook (obviously) so there is some material that your teacher may cover that is not in this guide, but it does cover all of the "main" concepts you will be exposed to in class. So, if you are someone who learns by reading, but the textbook does not do it for you, you should definitely give this a try.