: I would love to teach you calculus. There are several good high school level
: books on calculus you could use to teach yourself. Though it is my opinion
: to learn a subject like that WELL, you really need to see it in a
: classroom setting. See if your high school has a dual enrollment program
: with any nearby colleges. Perhaps you could take it at a local community
: college or other university for high school/university credit. At least it
: would get you out of your boring math class.....wait, can math BE
: boring??? :)
I guess you never had some of the teachers I had in school :P
Seriously, I had an outstanding math teacher in 7th and 8th grade - in fact, a short essay I wrote about him made it into a book last year. My 9th grade geometry teacher was absolutely awful - she would spend entire sessions justifying her mistakes. After that my math teachers were pretty average, but by then I'd found Dr. Dixon and was studying advanced vector calculus and physics. My HS did offer calculus in the senior year, but I didn't stick around for it.
I'm not sure I agree about the superiority of the classroom setting - I realize that that's what you do for a living, but some students do better on their own. Dont' get me wrong - once I got to college, I thrived in the classroom, but my favorite classes were the ones that offered independent study. What Dr. Dixon did for me was to take away the notion that learning had to proceed in a linear fashion. He tought calculus as an obvious extension of basic algebra, and trigonometry as a minor variation on the theme, and you didn't need to finish subject A before starting subject B.
