Top most common errors, slips and faults in integration, where and . Based off my personal experience, my experience with other students around me, and internal hypothesisation.1
Forgetting +c
Nuff said.
Integration is not distributive over multiplication
Forgetting to distribute the integral coefficient
Looks unlikely with and , but when your functions are fractions and exponents and trigonometric functions, plus you’re worrying about S-I+G-N errors, it’s way too easy to neglect properly multiplying out the leading coefficient.
Memorise your standard derivatives and antiderivatives
Losing track of parts
Derivative coefficients missing in action
Inverse chain rule
Dubious exponential algebra
Phantom division
Not fully dividing through
Divisive fraction splitting
SIGN
Forgetting to substitute the limits
Try sketching graphs
It’s a life skill.
S-I+G-N errors
Need I say any more?
Caring about the answer more than the method
Jumping straight to the answer when reading a solution
Trying to integrate
It’s unfortunately not possible with elementary functions.
Not using Desmos
Not using Wolfram Alpha
Not finding integration fun
Not practising enough
I’m not joking tho.
The best way to become cracked at integration is to just do loads of them.
Where can you find questions? I mean, we’ve got 300 here on Integrity ;)
- Seriously, what’s the noun form of “hypothesise”??↩