Calculus FTW - Deep Insight into Solving Calculus Problems app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 240 ratings )

Education Book
Developer: MathFTW LLC

2.99 USD

Current version: 1.8.1, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 24 Aug 2011
App size: 40.29 Mb

Does calculus have you dazed and confused? Calculus FTW
has hundreds of detailed step-by-step solutions to example problems from first year calculus!

Written by a college professor, Calculus FTW is an app that helps students learn calculus from a problem based approach.

Calculus FTW is not a mere reference for equations. Calculus FTW actually helps you learn and understand calculus by providing deep insight into solving many types of first year calculus problems.

Commercial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IInmPPzzU4

Topics covered:

● Precalculus
● Limits
● Derivatives
● Applications of Differentiation
● Integration

Every problem has:

● Hint - to help you if you are having difficulty solving a problem

● Solution - with lots of detail so that you can actually understand it.

○ Some solution manuals have so little explanation that a student can’t understand how to get from one step to the next.

○ Other solution manuals have so many steps and exposition that the solution becomes difficult to understand.

○ Calculus FTW is unique in that we provide the basic steps to the solution, but if you need additional steps or more of an explanation on how to get from one step to the next the information is provided with the tap of a finger.

● Tips and Tricks - to give you some general advice on how to solve other similar problems.

● Commentary - which includes a difficulty level out of 10 for every problem as well as an answer to every students question “How is the problem useful or interesting?”

○ Sometimes, when a student is reading the solution of a problem they don’t remember or understand some of the mathematical terms. In Calculus FTW you can tap the term you don’t understand and the concept is explained to you in a straight forward, unintimidating style.

Other features:
● Concept lessons to provide both background and insight into solving problems

● Animations you can interact with that help you understand concepts when word and symbols confuse an otherwise simple idea

● Detailed solutions to Optimization and Related Rates word problems with animations to help students understand what the question is asking.

● Step by step detail to help you put together a bunch of information to sketch a curve

● An extensive collection of precalculus concepts too (since often times students have difficulty in calculus because their precalculus is weak).

● Search feature to help students find the problems or concepts they are looking for.

Pros and cons of Calculus FTW - Deep Insight into Solving Calculus Problems app for iPhone and iPad

Calculus FTW - Deep Insight into Solving Calculus Problems app good for

The examples and explanations are great! Helped me so much with calculus

I used it to learn and review some concepts of calculus for my exam. Very neat and organized. I recommend it!

By far the best and most complete introductory Calculus app. Cant wait to see more - Integral and multi-variable please!!!

This app is incredibly helpful! Lots of sample problems with very detailed explanations! They should definitely make one for integrals!

Love this app, the only small mistake I saw was at the increasing/decreasing information section, it said f(x) > 0 for both increasing and decreasing. Other than that this app is really good =) wish there could be more, harder examples

The time I have spent on this app is not long so far, but what I have seen it is Excellant!

Some bad moments

Do not get this app if you are well into your calculus course! It only covered about the first month of calculus for me. It is a great help with the basics but covers a small fraction of all of calculus!

The app displays formulas and examples but doesnt solve any problems for you.

Is an incredible app whose explanations were easy to follow and were easy to remember and apply to complex college homework. I didnt think it would actually help this much.

This app is great for most calculus 1 topics, but if you need help with topics like polar calculus, or Taylor/McLaurin series, this app is of no use (but still, it really is great for various applications of derivatives and integrals, I recommend for calculus 1 users)

I wish there was more information on topics such as optimization (minimization/maximization), Rolles Theorem, Mean Value Theorem, Implicit Differentiation, etc. I appreciate the extensive detail on limits and derivatives, though. I just think there should be more of the other stuff as well. Also, you should include information on how to find the area and volume between curves/lines. But overall a great app for beginning calculus.

This is one of the best learning apps Ive seen for Calculus concepts. I highly recommend it.

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