Calculus: From Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Points of View : Single Variable

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Summary: as a future calculus teacher...
Review: I used this book for my calc class and while it is an interesting and noble approach at changing the way calculus is being taught today, it lacks the ability to explain things on the student's level. It is a great text if someone already knows calculus, to get at the concepts in an alternative light. However, for students with little or no calculus experience - prepare to be lost and pray for a hepful professor.

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Summary: Simply not a good choice for future mathematicians
Review: There are a lot of good calculus textbooks out there, and many of them are better, I think, than this one. I don't know whether the authors are trying to make calculus easy & interesting. The result is that students learn more how to use the machines than the subject--mathematics itself. Students talk more math than do math!! The authors seem to thoroughly go against the classics that emphasizes the "symbolic" approach more than "numerical and graphical". Sometimes new approaches should be encouraged but I personally believe that all should do to help the students grasp the materials and enhance their mathematical thoughts. This is a book that teaches you how to learn and teach calculus.

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Summary: Don't Support this cause!!!!!
Review: This book is awful. From both personal and second-hand experiences, I can say that this book will make your life miserable. The authors attempt to give the readers a deeper understanding of calculus concepts, but go about it an an obtuse and incredibly disorienting fashion. The book is chock-full of obscure references, half-hearted derivations, dizzying metaphors and incredibly bad jokes. Trying to follow this text is like trying to follow the wing movements of a hummingbird on steroids.

Also, the authors of this book are devious in their methods. They are constantly re-issuing new editions, and because they have a vice grip on their school's math department, students are forced to buy new editions every semester. This means after suffering our way through an entire semester of this dreadful text, we can't even get a decent deal when we try to sell back our books, because it is a new edition has been released. Math professors, this book is not worth your time. Do not supoprt this machine. It is a bad, bad thing. Liberate us!!!