Steven G
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You are 100% correct when you say that it is all algebra. I think that 99.999% of people who fail calculus do so because of their weak algebra skills. I completely shock people when I tell them that calculus is actually easy--at least the calculus part is! It is the algebra that will kill you. In your example above for the calculus part you just needed to right lim many times (although, understandably you didn't) and in the end plug in 0 for h. Now most any calculus student could do that. However doing all algebra is another thing.
I have a question for every one. If some fails calculus do you think that they should retake calculus the next semester or retake algebra/pre calculus?
I have a question for every one. If some fails calculus do you think that they should retake calculus the next semester or retake algebra/pre calculus?