Friday came. Madam Ama handed out the test. Kofi’s hands did not shake. He wrote lim and h→0 as if greeting an old friend. When he finished, he looked up. Madam Ama was watching him with raised eyebrows.
Kofi stared at his phone. The file name glared back at him: Godman-Additional-Mathematics-For-West-Africa-Pdf.pdf . His uncle had sent it from Lagos, promising it was “the miracle cure for failure.” Kofi sighed. The only miracle he needed was understanding differentiation by first principles before Madam Ama’s test on Friday. Godman-Additional-Mathematics-For-West-Africa-Pdf.pdf
Kofi, too stunned to argue, pointed at a question: Find the derivative of f(x) = 3x² + 2x from first principles. Friday came