Study
your instructor. Your instructor is a guide to the material of Technical
Calculus. As you take notes be aware of how your instructor presents certain
topics and how you instructor remembers mathematical facts. Each time you
instructor solves a problem in class, he/she presents
a model for how to approach and solve a problem. Each time your instructor answers
a question in class, he/she presents an example of how to reason through a
question mathematically. Your instructor’s process of mathematical reasoning is
just as valuable to observe as the actual mathematical techniques that are
applied to solve a problem.
As a mathematics teacher, your instructor has
mastered the material of the course. What examples from the text are presented
and what examples are skipped? Does you instructor’s enthusiasm for a
particular topic increase? Such a topic is an important one and is a good bet
to appear on the exam.