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  • @fluffyrawan7656
    @fluffyrawan76565 жыл бұрын

    Our teachers teach us how to pass calculus exams, not calculus itself. Thank you.

  • @AaBb-qs6gh

    @AaBb-qs6gh

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree , but for schools since they are limited by time, sometimes you need to study to pass not to understand😆 You can understand in your free time which we don't have😁

  • @baticadavinci3984

    @baticadavinci3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    couldn't agree more!

  • @unknownunknowns

    @unknownunknowns

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aa Bb It looks like graduating high school at 18 is really early...

  • @Devilfish4387

    @Devilfish4387

    2 жыл бұрын

    true and sad

  • @kgtech6882

    @kgtech6882

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AaBb-qs6gh i mean, in this 7 minutes i already learned so much than 1 and a half hour in a class.

  • @superawesomecaptainmcfluff9506
    @superawesomecaptainmcfluff95066 жыл бұрын

    In India, we're taught to practise a million derivative calculus sums without knowing it's beauty or use, you have really opened my eyes to its practicality and concept. Thanks. P.S - Think about partnering with Numberphile for a video please!

  • @r.s.banimations561

    @r.s.banimations561

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't say in INDIA .say it as "in your school or college .

  • @resurgam2243

    @resurgam2243

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@r.s.banimations561 In most schools.

  • @viveksukhla8631

    @viveksukhla8631

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@r.s.banimations561 in every school

  • @parulaggarwal9405

    @parulaggarwal9405

    5 жыл бұрын

    👌👌

  • @aarohansharma4551

    @aarohansharma4551

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's correct to a large extent...... I know students who excel at calculus(solving sums) but don't even know what it means conceptually!

  • @digit975
    @digit9756 жыл бұрын

    I wish more teachers and professors would teach math like this with actually relating it to the graph rather than just going straight into how to calculate it. It would be so much easier to learn this then focus on the actual math of it. This makes way more sense than just starting directly with "find dy/dx of sin^2(12x)/tan(18x) or some seemingly-arbitrary crap like that. Thank you!

  • @infinitymfg5397

    @infinitymfg5397

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree.

  • @luxfries1524

    @luxfries1524

    2 жыл бұрын

    Learn trigonometry

  • @luxfries1524

    @luxfries1524

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nvm this was 3 years ago

  • @fraddi

    @fraddi

    2 жыл бұрын

    CALCULUS WAS INVENTED IN INDIA. THE EUROPEANS STOLE IT.

  • @alkazi1482

    @alkazi1482

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fraddi And how does it help, you know the invention of the wheel was not achivement that happened in one place, it happened multiple place. Calculus is one of the primary way to calculate. Why couldn't it be discovered in multiple areas of the glove. The chinese also discovered calculas. Calculas isn't invented, it was discovered.

  • @omniscienceisdead8837
    @omniscienceisdead88372 жыл бұрын

    Within the first 3 minutes I understood more than the 3 months I've been studying in my college, you guys are doing God's work

  • @razalasreficul6902

    @razalasreficul6902

    9 ай бұрын

    Clearly more like "you guys are doing my professors' work"

  • @ceejay1684
    @ceejay16842 жыл бұрын

    saved my life on this one. teachers just kept throwing formulas and methods of finding derivatives without explaining what derivatives are themselves. thank you, saul

  • @bladeiron

    @bladeiron

    Ай бұрын

    Your teacher is stuck in the 1950s, because that is what a lot of teachers did before the Calculus Reform of what I believe was in the 1980s.

  • @theopenacademy9102
    @theopenacademy91025 жыл бұрын

    Khan I really got to thank you for the work youve done! Ive been out of high school for over three years, time i took off to travel and learn skills I was curious about and I have finally decided to attend university this september and I have calc and physics as a major part of the program that I got into and I had forgotten practically everything I learned in high school. I have spent the last two months doing about 7 hours of khan academy a day and for the first time in my life I absolutely love math and physics. Dont get me wrong i did well in highscool math etc... but I didnt understand a thing. I was schooled but I wasnt educated. Taught concepts with no effort in establishing intuition. All the courses that I enjoyed the most in highschool were english, history, social sciences etc.. as most of the learning in those classes is about intuition and critical thinking while all science and math courses were all blind applications. Thank you so much! I have learned more than just math and physics concepts from you but the right way to teach and to educate! So much love!!

  • @randyshi72
    @randyshi722 жыл бұрын

    This really helped me understand the true concept of derivatives, not just a bunch of formulas. Thank you so much!

  • @uniqueh5203
    @uniqueh52033 жыл бұрын

    I'm a master graduate in the faculty of architecture and I can say, it is by far the best explained differential concept lesson I have ever seen in my life !

  • @ameesinghamazing3825
    @ameesinghamazing3825 Жыл бұрын

    THIS IS THE KIND OF TEACHERS OUR WORLD NEEDS! teachers who are energetic, and have a depth of knowledge. it has been rightly said and holds true," teachers who love to teach, teach children to love learning!"

  • @zoombae
    @zoombae6 жыл бұрын

    Is it weird that I Have a slight crush on this man

  • @ankitaaarya

    @ankitaaarya

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes if you're not joking

  • @adamrosstoledobriones8881

    @adamrosstoledobriones8881

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @SamitaSarkar

    @SamitaSarkar

    3 жыл бұрын

    His voice is great

  • @adiliraliyev5882

    @adiliraliyev5882

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe you just feel like that towards people who teach you stuff?

  • @arogueburrito

    @arogueburrito

    3 жыл бұрын

    nah I don't think so

  • @gouisedeau
    @gouisedeau4 жыл бұрын

    thought he was playing Counter-strike ..... BTW excellent tutorial, reminder

  • @joedimon2645
    @joedimon26452 жыл бұрын

    Just failed my Math Content Praxis and have been feeling really depressed for three days over it. But this video just made me happy again! You really have to find the easiest way for you to engage with the material, for me it's just sitting back and watching Khan teach.

  • @kartikeyekhanna2657
    @kartikeyekhanna26576 жыл бұрын

    Dear Khan Academy! Your videos have proved to be the most helpful!! Please post more videos on calculus now!

  • @ellastevens5638
    @ellastevens5638 Жыл бұрын

    Explained in a way that was easy to understand and very helpful for my exam, thank you so much!! I used KA back in middle school and at the time didn't realize how many videos there were over so many topics, now that I have this is going to be a great help for this college student!

  • @Tom-sq2nt
    @Tom-sq2nt Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, it finally make me understand what is derivative. My teacher said the concept wasn't important so she only teach us how to do the exercise

  • @swarajrajpure8073
    @swarajrajpure80736 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Khan Academy! You people are the best in convincing us the tough concepts easy way!

  • @fraddi

    @fraddi

    2 жыл бұрын

    CALCULUS WAS INVENTED IN INDIA. THE EUROPEANS STOLE IT.

  • @mohamedaminebaccar8095
    @mohamedaminebaccar80952 жыл бұрын

    I finally understood derivative after 3 MONTHS of studying it at class You literally saved my life Huge thanks 🙏

  • @MichiganPeatMoss
    @MichiganPeatMoss2 жыл бұрын

    Stuffed away since some time in a 1988 college class, brought out and clarified in 2022. Many thanks.

  • @Kate-zz4nk
    @Kate-zz4nk2 жыл бұрын

    You explained this extremely well! It actually makes sense now

  • @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo
    @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo2 жыл бұрын

    I took my high school math late as an adult in a community college; so this explanation is very much understandable to me as someone not gifted at all for Math.

  • @paulaan881
    @paulaan8813 жыл бұрын

    GOOD TEACHER!!! YOU MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MATH ... Gracias

  • @vadrif-draco
    @vadrif-draco2 жыл бұрын

    That cursor and in general those illustration tools are so impressive!

  • @LoganSnyder
    @LoganSnyder4 жыл бұрын

    I've never learned calculus in my life and now I'm a college senior in a machine learning class that DID NOT HAVE any math prerequites, and all the sudden the professor springs calculus on us like we're supposed to know it. Oof. This videos are saving me right now, haha. Thank you!

  • @15justt

    @15justt

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are you in a course with machine learning and no calculus lmao

  • @LoganSnyder

    @LoganSnyder

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@15justt Like I said the university never put math prerequisites on the course which was pretty dumb. I'm happy to say I passed the class with an A though. I hardly slept during the Spring 2020 semester haha

  • @15justt

    @15justt

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LoganSnyder same... Coincidentally what kept me up at night was Calculus 2 😂

  • @quriositysquared1028
    @quriositysquared10286 жыл бұрын

    You sir, are saving lives(trust me on this one!).

  • @jadesanjose2520
    @jadesanjose25204 жыл бұрын

    So many a-ha moments... thank you for explaining the things that would seemingly be useless. For example, the definition of delta... that made it all click for me. It's just like the slope formula! I understand why they want us to think about it differently to not get concepts confused but a simple comparison is helpful with using the knowledge we already have and to build on it. I take online classes and the video instructor just kept saying "delta y" and "delta x" which is meaningless to me! Now it all makes sense though. I appreciate that you do this in all your videos. Sometimes I'm like omg its such a long video but well worth it for those like me who LIKE to understand the "whys?" no pun intended... :)

  • @princessEA7
    @princessEA726 күн бұрын

    Very good in-depth explanations in this channel! Thank you very much!

  • @E7R1I6C
    @E7R1I6C2 жыл бұрын

    Lol imagine if teachers explained the building blocks instead of just giving you problems. A year of calc in college and never actually understood it, just learned how to pass tests

  • @MeinCouch123
    @MeinCouch123 Жыл бұрын

    dude, I feel like this is the first time this has made any sense- none of my teachers ever mentioned how dy/dx relate to a graph or the tangent line AT ALL, they just name drop terms without explaining.

  • @alessandromalfa3919
    @alessandromalfa3919 Жыл бұрын

    i am from italy. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT JOB!!!! my teacher made me get confused about this interesting subject, but you cleared my mind. Thanks

  • @tthproductions8076
    @tthproductions80766 жыл бұрын

    Im using khanacademy rght now :)

  • @maskedmarvyl4774
    @maskedmarvyl477411 ай бұрын

    The reason the slope line here is also called the "secant line", is because as per geometry, it is a line that intersects a circle (or curve) at a minimum of two points. I don't know if it is being used here to also describe the secant function in trigonometry, i.e. the hypotenuse of a triangle divided by its adjacent side.

  • @Shivshankar_JEE-ov5wx
    @Shivshankar_JEE-ov5wx2 жыл бұрын

    Sal Sir can really make us learn anything.

  • @user-wy1js8tc1z
    @user-wy1js8tc1z Жыл бұрын

    Finally got it, thank you for insight!

  • @hotball5361
    @hotball5361 Жыл бұрын

    Definition of derivatives in this is very understandable and very practically explained.THANKYOU.

  • @michio028yt8
    @michio028yt82 ай бұрын

    thaks you you teached me enought to continue learning

  • @jessetrammell5678
    @jessetrammell5678 Жыл бұрын

    You did the impossible. I learned a little bit of calculas. Thank you :)

  • @asparagus7014
    @asparagus70142 ай бұрын

    I love math, but the teachers explain it at such a fast rate that I can't keep up.

  • @caratinawaiters2590
    @caratinawaiters25907 ай бұрын

    Your excitement in this video is breathtaking

  • @proudamazighian9334
    @proudamazighian93342 жыл бұрын

    The first and already the best math channel I found

  • @conradkotze4615
    @conradkotze4615 Жыл бұрын

    This makes so much more sense!

  • @katunduchabala7266
    @katunduchabala72669 ай бұрын

    Super cool video! Thanks!

  • @justinkim7202
    @justinkim72027 ай бұрын

    Loving these lessons!

  • @ronaldoggha1801
    @ronaldoggha18012 жыл бұрын

    what an excellent explanation. Thank you so much

  • @user-hc9dk2dl9i
    @user-hc9dk2dl9i6 жыл бұрын

    this helps so much

  • @rajnish8918
    @rajnish89183 жыл бұрын

    brilliantly explained as usual

  • @frankenstein3397
    @frankenstein33972 жыл бұрын

    this explanation clears my dy/dx doubt,thanks.

  • @benv5115
    @benv511516 күн бұрын

    You're a national hero!

  • @ValidatingUsername
    @ValidatingUsername11 күн бұрын

    To maintain the axiom of RS = LS it should be reinforced that d/dx y or f(x) is literally y’ and f’(x) respectively. d/dx F(x) = f(x) = int{ f’(x) dx F(x) = int{ f(x) dx = int{ f’(x) dx^2 d/dx^2 F(x) = d/dx f(x) = f’(x) To further that notion, as above, the integral sign and dx are just brackets and uSub is a change of base for the brackets.

  • @krishnaca65
    @krishnaca6529 күн бұрын

    very nicely explained sir.

  • @user-fp5bz2ux2p
    @user-fp5bz2ux2p6 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU!!! FINALLY!!! I'M GETTING ANSWERS!!

  • @WhovianRanger42
    @WhovianRanger425 ай бұрын

    It's actually a lot of fun to practice my English listening with Math videos! :)

  • @johnnamtae9610
    @johnnamtae96103 жыл бұрын

    Your handwriting is so good in these.

  • @pereirao
    @pereirao6 жыл бұрын

    Excelent explanation!

  • @MGTMusic
    @MGTMusic Жыл бұрын

    Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you ! God bless you!!!

  • @chivasluis1
    @chivasluis12 жыл бұрын

    That was intense. A very good intense.

  • @florentinosanchez3969
    @florentinosanchez39692 жыл бұрын

    I finally get it, thank you

  • @abhyudayaaware8653
    @abhyudayaaware86532 жыл бұрын

    very excited!!!!

  • @haydenhartmann2034
    @haydenhartmann2034 Жыл бұрын

    I am very very excited indeed

  • @much_tunsia
    @much_tunsia Жыл бұрын

    this was just so good

  • @ivanasintic8543
    @ivanasintic85435 ай бұрын

    Not all heroes wear capes - best explanations for given topics you can find - simple, clear, and on point. Thanks for making math interesting and understandable to everybody

  • @bibauu
    @bibauu4 ай бұрын

    i learnt more in this video abt deriv than 3 years of high school

  • @mhm8742
    @mhm8742 Жыл бұрын

    this was sooooo helpful tysmmm

  • @megancower1884
    @megancower18845 жыл бұрын

    Wow. I feel things are about to click.

  • @DylanWoods-kw6km
    @DylanWoods-kw6km3 ай бұрын

    I'm in 7th grade teaching my self calculus KZread is the best

  • @amangarg3858
    @amangarg38586 жыл бұрын

    This is what I exactly looking for😀😀😀

  • @paterfamiliasgeminusiv4623
    @paterfamiliasgeminusiv46235 жыл бұрын

    Great, great, this is good :)

  • @shahreenchowdhury1086
    @shahreenchowdhury10865 жыл бұрын

    Now the organic chemistry tutor channel is good for working out a specific concept but khan academy is good for explaining cocepts.Thanks for th video it was,😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  • @jessye2325
    @jessye23253 жыл бұрын

    Thank you !

  • @ammarchen8850
    @ammarchen88503 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much khan academy

  • @phatphan1403
    @phatphan14033 жыл бұрын

    I would have Aced all my AP classes back in 2005 if KZread instruction videos have existed back then.

  • @collegeupdates2354
    @collegeupdates23543 жыл бұрын

    Easiest explanation of derivative and not at all boring .

  • @spiderman10101
    @spiderman101012 жыл бұрын

    Well explained

  • @thewisearchitect
    @thewisearchitect Жыл бұрын

    You are so good!

  • @khalilgueye5097
    @khalilgueye5097 Жыл бұрын

    i have nobody to thank for where i am in life, but you, sal khan

  • @dhurbarajpuree2992
    @dhurbarajpuree29923 жыл бұрын

    Great teacher u are

  • @pearrrrrrrrrrr
    @pearrrrrrrrrrr7 ай бұрын

    I'm about to start derivatives in my calculus class and I always have to know WHY I'm learning something or I won't want to learn it. THANK YOU!

  • @SchwanaCARDHUT
    @SchwanaCARDHUT10 ай бұрын

    Bravo 👏👏 et Merci ..................

  • @diegoespinoza8997
    @diegoespinoza899711 ай бұрын

    Could you believe me if I told you that I only now understand the concept of a derivative? And all I had to do was to search for the answer in English? Idk how, but I don't grasp these concepts when I am being taught in Spanish, which ironically, is my mother language, thank you very much for this "humanitarian service", lol.

  • @josephajoseph9535
    @josephajoseph953510 ай бұрын

    Give this man a manhatten project!❤

  • @dakshgiri3367
    @dakshgiri3367 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @tuannguyenhoang8735
    @tuannguyenhoang87353 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much

  • @meloniejen8400
    @meloniejen84005 жыл бұрын

    Amount of likes is the amount of lives Khan has saved

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan6 жыл бұрын

    I get confused at almost every use of the terms 'function' and 'derivative' as I thought they were synonymous... What am I misunderstanding? By extension, I'm not sure I understand f' (f-prime), either. Could someone help?

  • @ExplainIttoMe_1

    @ExplainIttoMe_1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Albeit_Jordan A function is a relationship between one or more variables. For example, f(x) = x+3. A derivative is the instantaneous rate of change of the function at a point. Another way to think of a derivative is the slope of the tangent line at a point of the function. The f-prime notation is just another way to represent the derivative of a function. Hope that helps!

  • @reginaphilange6478

    @reginaphilange6478

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ExplainIttoMe_1 I'm so confused, so the derivative is the *y* of x??

  • @ExplainIttoMe_1

    @ExplainIttoMe_1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@reginaphilange6478 The derivative represents the slope or rate of change of the function at one point. It is represented by f’(x), dy/dx, or y’. The function itself is usually represented by f(x) or y (without the apostrophe, which is read as “prime”).

  • @danielcervantes7826

    @danielcervantes7826

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@reginaphilange6478 Derivative is the "slope" at x

  • @danielwalker2381
    @danielwalker23815 жыл бұрын

    Visually looking at derivatives doesn't make sense but numerically it makes more sense...idk why...I think it's because you think "oh, x^2 is continually changing more and more and more, so how could the derivative be a line 2x?" oof lol

  • @sebastianr3460
    @sebastianr34603 жыл бұрын

    I hadn´t understood the concept of rate of change until this video.

  • @vatsayana2004
    @vatsayana2004 Жыл бұрын

    My college professors had no knowledge about derivatives, Limits, Calculus and Integration. They were crammers and skilled workers and unnecessarily getting big salary.

  • @NotWhatYouThinkSom
    @NotWhatYouThinkSom2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Khan academy

  • @allywilliams6849
    @allywilliams6849 Жыл бұрын

    I’m not even taking pre cal as a senior until next semester, but I’m in AP physics (algebra based), so it might help

  • @ryannatuor344
    @ryannatuor3442 жыл бұрын

    I've been learning derivatives in highschool for almost two years and only now I realise what the derivative actually is

  • @drmalpractical
    @drmalpractical2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @nikulbhati7733
    @nikulbhati77336 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @konozrashid887
    @konozrashid8872 жыл бұрын

    Just like you showed the proof of the derivatives of different functions, do you also have videos which show the proof of integration of differentiation functions? If so, please give me the link of those videos.

  • @fataldreidel5846
    @fataldreidel58464 жыл бұрын

    imagine knowing why people in ancient times needed to invent ways to discover the derivative.....that might form a lot more connections and motivate people to care more about learning this stuff. -Former math study

  • @rajdeepsindhu9268

    @rajdeepsindhu9268

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! In fact, Grant Sanderson, owner of 3Blue1Brown takes this very approach in his "Essence of Calculus" series. He describes his primary goal as giving the viewers a feeling that they too could have stumbled upon these situations and have invented calculus themselves.

  • @julianbastian6723
    @julianbastian67233 жыл бұрын

    our teachers teaches us what to press in the calculator to solve the problems not derivatives

  • @soleunderdeepsea6585

    @soleunderdeepsea6585

    3 жыл бұрын

    Then you should do it😄

  • @julianbastian6723

    @julianbastian6723

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@soleunderdeepsea6585 sure i already do and im only 14

  • @molefiledwaba5245
    @molefiledwaba52457 ай бұрын

    Which software are u using to teach here. Looks great

  • @hamedhasan5843
    @hamedhasan5843 Жыл бұрын

    I'm half done with my college differentiation course and solved many problem without knowing what am I actually doing...then here I heard the phrase "instantaneous rate of change"

  • @pranavp.a1200
    @pranavp.a12006 жыл бұрын

    can you please make a video on orbitals.electro negativity and related topics please...thank you

  • @pranavp.a1200

    @pranavp.a1200

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lakshaydeep thank you

  • @ruixue6955
    @ruixue69553 жыл бұрын

    0:36 delta is shorthand for change

  • @40fpskiller
    @40fpskiller Жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @ther7554
    @ther75542 жыл бұрын

    If my teacher would have taught me in this manner i would never have wasted time in gaming anymore...this thing itself a very interesting game🤗