I almost failed calculus. Today I'm a math prof.

►Visit https://brilliant.org/TreforBazett/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription Today I'm a mathematics professor, but when I was a student taking first year calculus for the first time, I really struggled! In this video I break down a few major factors that contributed. 1) Everyone has their own attitudes towards math, and Carol Dweck's notion of a Fixed Mindset affects our learning behaviours. For myself, I had this idea I was "good at math" which meant I wasn't doing effective learning behaviours to improve myself because I thought this was fixed. I also then quickly developed a lot of math anxiety where I worried my self-image as someone who was good at math would be proven untrue if I actually worked hard and then didn't succeed. Silly, but many of us have fixed mindsets that get in the way! 2) I was really passive in my learning behaviours, doing things like copying down notes or reading notes, but not engaging in active learning behaviours I now think are more effective for your learning. 3) I just didn't love it! Now I love Calculus, but it took my falling in love with math later on to come back and see a lot of the beauty. When I first took it it was just lots of computations evaluated by procedural fluency as opposed to conceptual reasoning. I first feel in love with math in an absract algebra course full of theorems and proofs. 0:00 The state of Calculus 1:08 Attitudes towards mathematics 3:17 Passive learning behaviours 4:18 Not in love with calculus 4:49 My view on attitudes today 7:15 Be an active learner! 8:31 How I fell in love with math 10:50 Learn math at brilliant.org/TreforBazett Check out my MATH MERCH line in collaboration with Beautiful Equations ►https://beautifulequations.net/pages/trefor COURSE PLAYLISTS: ►DISCRETE MATH: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxersk8fUxiUMSIx0DBqsKZS ►LINEAR ALGEBRA: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxfUl0tcqPNTJsb7R6BqSLo6 ►CALCULUS I: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxfT9RMcReZ4WcoVILP4k6-m ► CALCULUS II: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxc4ySKTIW19TLrT91Ik9M4n ►MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS (Calc III): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxc_CvEy7xBKRQr6I214QJcd ►VECTOR CALCULUS (Calc IV) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxfW0GMqeUE1bLKaYor6kbHa ►DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxde-SlgmWlCmNHroIWtujBw ►LAPLACE TRANSFORM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxcJXnLr08cyNaup4RDsbAl1 ►GAME THEORY: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxdzD8KpTHz6_gsw9pPxRFlX OTHER PLAYLISTS: ► Learning Math Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPH2lqis3D0&list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxfSkRtlL5KPq6JqMNTh_MBw ►Cool Math Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxelE_9RzwJ-cqfUtaFBpiho BECOME A MEMBER: ►Join: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rTsvTxJnx1DNrDA3Rqa6A/join MATH BOOKS I LOVE (affilliate link): ► https://www.amazon.com/shop/treforbazett SOCIALS: ►Twitter (math based): http://twitter.com/treforbazett ►Instagram (photography based): http://instagram.com/treforphotography