This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents a study of instructors' and students' perceptions of the knowledge to be learned about limits of functions in a college ...

Today I am trying to plan out the first three 20-minute episodes for the summer calculus class. Lesson 1 is about the concept of the function, basic terminology, and how to compute function values ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we use theoretical frameworks from mathematics education and cognitive psychology to analyse Cauchy's ideas of function, ...