Can anyone who has been to college give there opinion on Calculus 3? I'm going to Kansas-State University this fall as a freshman and they recommended me for Calculus 3. I know every college varies, but if I have a strong background in math and have taken AP Calculus I in high school do you think it is possible to do well in the course? Any advice or ideas are welcome, I have to find a time when my advisors from the school will answer, which is hard when I work full time during the work week.

If you did very well in Calculus (5 on the BC part of AP Calc exam or close) then i'd go ahead with it :). It also feels like a branch from normal Calc for me, as when we took it, it felt like we were dealing a lot more with vectors and geometry. I got a good grade, but that's because in high school our math teachers taught pretty heavy on Calc 2 material and vectors so if your good with those i'd go ahead with it.

Is it multivariable calc or the more advanced stuff of single variable calc? Different schools name their courses differently and spread their material out differently. Multivariable I found to be less annoying than the stuff covered near the end of single variable (series and such come to mind).

Overall none of it's really that hard though, but it's nice when you're done with it.

MATH 221. Analytic Geometry and Calculus II. (4) II. Continuation of MATH 220 to include transcendental functions, techniques of integration, and infinite series. Pr.: C or better in MATH 220.

MATH 222. Analytic Geometry and Calculus III. (4) S. Continuation of MATH 221 to include functions of more than one variable. Pr.: C or better in MATH 221.

I'd be taking MATH 222.

Ahh, so multivariable. Yeah, if you've got a good grasp on 3-dimensional vector algebra and such, it shouldn't be too rough.

Yeah, I hope you can visualize 3 dimensions in your head because it will help you a lot. If not, you can still get through it by working the math, but it will be a bit harder conceptually to understand what's going on.

I don't really remember, it's the middle of summer. I dunno, maybe I'll go see if I can find a book and brush up a little, probably worth the investment if I could skip Calc II to buy a book and spend a little time getting ready.

I found Calc 3 the be the worst class of my math series, simply because I couldn't stand vector calculus. I don't mind intergrating with two or three variables, but some of the setups to the vector problems I just couldn't wrap my head around. Also, our teacher sucked. Also, I skipped class regularly. I don't recommend either.

But I did pass with a C, which is good enough for me.

Will be taking it next semester, but I heard it was much better then Calc 2

Failed calc 1, Failed calc 2 changed emphasis to business.

I think I was still in a high school mentality when it came to that stuff, if I repeat it I might get a better handle on it.

I was thinking about algebra II and precal stuff, Theres alot in precalc that I never covered that was used in calc.
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That and all the new concepts in calc taht you don't see in precalc... sometimes were hard for me to grasp.

Pre-Calc is poorly named, because a lot of it has nothing to do with Calculus.

No, it's perfectly named. Precalculus. Before calculus, not actually being calculus.

A lot of it's doing certain calculus functions trigonometrically so you get used to it when you go Calc. But it is all just trig.

From my experience I would recommend that you start as low as you can. An easy A is better than a desperate C.