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Do you find it difficult to understand that not everybody will find the same things easy or difficult in the same way? It also depends on good teacher's help, especially for the trickier parts that require the right approach to problem solving and really can't be considered mechanical. Even in algebra, sets of 2nd degree equations can be like this. So can many trig equations. This does not imply some of the things you insist on and I would be wary making exaggerated claims.

Now my problem in here is that php is asking about US course standards which I don't know (and neither whether it's what you mean by "baby calculus"). I can see from Pyro's post that it's simple enough calculus but by the time you get to 4 you really can't say everybody will equally find it as easy as high school algebra. There is no theorem by which anyone who easily gets through the one won't stumble on the other.

So, it seems php is inquiring about pretty basic calculus and apparently given in rather spoon-fed courses (unlike mine), before Pyro's post I was reckoning on a wider range of possible difficulty. Still I think the only serious way to help php is for those familiar with these standards to give him an idea of what he's in for, without equating cats and leopards.