I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to put this kind of question but i didn't know where else to put it.

I failed in maths at school and would like to learn more because i've become very interested in it. I know the basics, well most of them anyway, and one of the main things i want to learn is to understand formulas such as those i found here: Introduction to Calculus Tutorial

Things like f(x) makes absolutely no sense, is f a function and whatever f does it does it to x? Anyway i'd love to be able to understand all of those formulas and even write my own to become better at maths.

Basically, i want to know where i can further my maths skills from a very basic level through novice/intermediate and upto skilled perhaps one day. Whatever i find after a quick search on Google are either too easy or too hard, theres no kind of crossover material if you will.

Thanks. Sry if this is in the wrong place.

What level are you at now? I see your from the UK, was it GCSE that you failed at school? Some of the content on that tutorial is quite advance for someone who has presumably not done maths since GCSE?

What it is you want to learn maths for, do you need it for a job or college application, or just because you want to further your maths skills?

To make things harder there is also a great deal of choice depending on what sort of maths you want to learn. There is Pure maths, that deals with equations, calculus, coordinate geometry, Mechanics that deals with things such as centres of mass, liner motion, Statistics involving distributions such as binomial, poisson, and there is Decision maths involving topics such as algorithms and 'shortest route problems'.

These are the 4 main types of maths taught at A-Level in the UK, these are just scratching the surface though.

Hope some of this helps, feel free to post back with any questions.

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Craig

Thanks. Well to give u some idea of where i am, i've been trying to learn how to do long division for 2 years and i still cant do it. There are three reasons why i want further my maths skills. A) I'm really getting into it now its fascinating to me. B) I'm becoming more interested in computer programming so i'll need a greater understanding of mathematics to succeed as a programmer. C) I might be going back to college for an ICT course but even on those courses you do Literacy and Numercy tests/lessons and i want to prepare. I think Calculus would probably be the best place to start for me.

And yeah i got a GCSE grade D in mathematics mainly because i wasn't at school for 52% of my GCSEs because i didn't like the other students for personal reasons.

Youtube can be a good place to learn things such as long division, there are some great videos on there with step by step guides. Anytime you get stuck, if you post your problem on here you can guarantee that you will have an excellent answer with in the nest couple of hours.

What kind of programming is it your doing, PHP, ASP, C++? It may be a good idea getting in touch with some collges/companies and asking what kind of mathematical knowledge you need in that field. Once you know what you need to learn, that can be a good start for you to build upon.

Calculus is a great topic, however if you did not do too well at GCSE, some if it may be a bit much to start with? There is a good set of videos on youtube which cover some of the basics. Why not give these a watch, see how you get along?

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Great! Thanks alot for the help dude. Appreciate it. I'm off on youtube.

No problem mate, be sure to post back here with any problems, and good luck with whatever you choose to do

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