Derive Me, Maybe?

Townsend Harris High School's AP Calculus Parody of Carly Rae Jepson's "Call Me Maybe"

An AP Calculus student falls in love.

Lyrics:

I made a wish about you
x of t is 22
i looked to you for a clue
v of t decreasing

I'd make the graph concave up
the integral I'd set up
rotate it into a cup
radius increasing

study the relation
trying integration
graph the correlation
why'd you use u-substitution?

hey! i just met you
and this is crazy
but here's my du
derive me maybe

it's hard to integrate
without you baby
but here's my du
derive me maybe

hey! i just met you
and this is crazy
but here's my du
derive me maybe

and all the secants
intersect me
but here's my du
derive me maybe

i took the range and domain
you found that it was no pain
limits all over the plane
you made them undefined

can't find your min or your max
you just stopped dead in your tracks
gotta remember the facts
to find the graph's design

study the relation
trying integration
graph the correlation
why'd you use u-substitution?

hey! i just met you
and this is crazy
but here's my du
derive me maybe

it's hard to integrate
without you baby
but here's my du
derive me maybe

hey! i just met you
and this is crazy
but here's my du
derive me maybe

and all the secants
intersect me
but here's my du
derive me maybe

before i learned l'hopital's rule
limits were so bad
limits were so bad
limits were so so bad

before i learned l'hopital's rule
limits were so bad
i know too well that
limits were so so bad

it's hard to integrate
without you baby
but here's my du
derive me maybe

hey! i just met you
and this is crazy
but here's my du
derive me maybe

and all the secants
intersect me
but here's my du
derive me maybe

before i learned l'hopital's rule
limits were so bad
limits were so bad
limits were so so bad

before i learned l'hopital's rule
limits were so bad
and you should know to
derive me, maybe?

[houseflyer]

i swear calculus parodies were all the rage back then

[highquality]

this has more sexual tension than the original and i love it

[nakshatrasharma]

*WHO ELSE IS GOING DOWN IN THE RABBIT HOLE OF CALCULUS PARODIES WITH ME?*

[DangoStick]

I'm cos^2, you're sin^2. Let's make one.

[snake]

So for a math student "to derive" means "to get laid"

[Faroshkas]

This is probably the Calculus Parody with the best fitting lyrics lol. There is no awkward rhymes or tempos, it's awesome.

[neelmodi]

Haha LHopital's rule is practically a cheat code for precalc

[Lemonremy]

Help 😭😭😭 this is just too funny “here’s my du, derive me maybe?” 😭😭😭

[jonathanjaimangal]

I don't think I want to be a mathematician anymore 

[snayrca]

This is amazing! Dede, you have such a beautiful voice. PLUS 10 for all!!!

[mikko_musik]

concave up means that the slope is increasing (not that the function is increasing). in other words, as you travel from left to right, the slope increases at each point.

[HillufShovel]

This song almost makes me wish I took calc. Almost.
Nice work guys!! The video's awesome!!

[joeyoung]

ths song makes derivatives... umm awkward lol

[beaverr]

I wish linear algebra and topology was as fun as calc 3

[Jaminux]

only in 2012 would you find a video where the love interest is wearing a rage comics shirt, what a time

[aau]

Maybe this wouldn't suck if she didn't make that "derive me maybe" movement. Maybe.

[schmoocrew]

This is better than the actual song! (that includes the singing)

[Mahi_S_]

What in the world is this 😂😂 people back then were more creative and talented, this almost looked like an American sitcom theme song, even the video was perfect ❤ and also finding it hard to believe that calculus could be of any other use rather than giving people serious anxiety 🤣🤣

[anuragrai]

Dear God! The calci she has in this video is prices at 17000 rupees in India

[mostwantedvishal]

My sinus is acting up just looking at that chalkboard