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Using Hockey Pucks To Help Students Understand Vector Addition, Orientation, and Change of Basis.

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Lutzer, Carl V. – Primus, 2001

Describes an activity designed to help students develop a good foundation from the beginning of the transition from multivariate calculus to linear algebra. (MM)

Descriptors: Calculus, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics Education

A Unified Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations

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Lutzer, Carl V. – PRIMUS, 2006

This article describes how a presentation from the point of view of differential operators can be used to (partially) unify the myriad techniques in an introductory course in ordinary differential equations by providing students with a powerful, flexible paradigm that extends into (or from) linear algebra. (Contains 1 footnote.)

Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Equations (Mathematics), Calculus, Algebra