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Apkarian, Naneh; Bowers, Janet; O'Sullivan, Michael E.; Rasmussen, Chris – PRIMUS, 2018
This article presents a case study that details the successes and lessons learned by faculty and administrators at San Diego State University (SDSU) who are in the process of implementing a substantial improvement to the Precalculus to Calculus 2 sequence. Improvement efforts have been informed by national studies of successful programs and center…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, College Faculty
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Rasmussen, Chris; Keynes, Michael – PRIMUS, 2003
The purpose of this paper is to describe an instructional sequence where students invent a method for locating lines of eigenvectors and corresponding solutions to systems of two first order linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The significance of this paper is two-fold. First, it represents an innovative alternative…
Descriptors: Prediction, Concept Formation, Equations (Mathematics), Generalization