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Hey nerds, I'm planning on going back to school in a few years and want to smash the math proficiency test so I don't have to spend years relearning things that will probably only take me a few months at most. What books do you all recommend to get me from college algebra to Calc II or III?

Bonus points for stats and physics recs, as well.

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[-] LisaTrevor@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

https://mathispower4u.com/

this is what my calc 1 professor gave us to brush up with when i took it a couple years back. they're just videos though, if you want everything to stick you'll have to spend some time grinding problems.

there are free textbooks here https://openstax.org/subjects/math
the instruction isn't very thorough, worth skimming when you need a quick refresh. use it for the exercises. I'd go through the Algebra + Trig book and Precalc, you'll need to understand trig pretty well to get through calc 2 hell

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