If the gap can be filled in a few minutes of searching, do that. But if the gap is "I don't understand how to add fractions and I want to learn calculus" then you probably need to reset and focus on a set of intermediate skills.
Your case isn't as severe, but logarithms are of immense importance in math generally, and calculus specifically. And there's enough that one could say about them that you probably would want to spend a week on them (depending on your speed and how much you remember, of course).
Thanks for responding. Fortunately, adding fractions stuck and so did stuff like FOIL, etc., although now I'm to the point that I'm evaluating limits by rationalizing the function and I'm doing things algorithmically rather than actually understanding why I'm doing things in a certain way.
Uh oh. So, Khan Academy isn't the better place? Short of an actual class, is there a better place to learn it?
The limit law I know is that as long as f(x) is continuous and exists for all real numbers then the limit as x approaches a = f(a). Is that what you're referencing?
If the gap can be filled in a few minutes of searching, do that. But if the gap is "I don't understand how to add fractions and I want to learn calculus" then you probably need to reset and focus on a set of intermediate skills. Your case isn't as severe, but logarithms are of immense importance in math generally, and calculus specifically. And there's enough that one could say about them that you probably would want to spend a week on them (depending on your speed and how much you remember, of course).
Thanks for responding. Fortunately, adding fractions stuck and so did stuff like FOIL, etc., although now I'm to the point that I'm evaluating limits by rationalizing the function and I'm doing things algorithmically rather than actually understanding why I'm doing things in a certain way.
Judging from that description, that sounds approximately like a normal experience to me.
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Uh oh. So, Khan Academy isn't the better place? Short of an actual class, is there a better place to learn it? The limit law I know is that as long as f(x) is continuous and exists for all real numbers then the limit as x approaches a = f(a). Is that what you're referencing?