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Originally posted by bugzpodder
yea, another reason is that the teachers actually show the derivation to the formulas, unlike the text book which constantly tosses out stuff at you without showing you how it was developed (I'd guarentee the derivitive chapter you stormed does not show you how they got the first principles, as well as the power rule, product rule, quotient rule, trig derivitives). if i were given the derivation, i would most definately remember the formula better, and in case i forget it or get it mixed up/confused, i always know how i would get the correct formula by going over the (hopefully short) derivation again. and if you don't understand something, it is always better to ask the teacher instead of asking the text book. and don't think text books are perfect. they aren't.
no they're not perfect, but my class in particular is antiperfect. its horrible. its horribly aperfect. they're sooo slow....not to sound stuck up but man there are some stupid people in that class. class average is 56, median 53. A few kids are up there though, I have 105%, and a couple of my friends have 102%, 96%, 86%, etc... which are prety good...but i mean one kid has 9%. NINE.