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Boelkins, Matthew R. – Primus, 1998
In standard mathematical notation it is common to have a given symbol take on different meanings in different settings. Shares anecdotes of how this symbolic double entendre causes difficulties for students. Suggests ways in which instructors can clarify these ambiguities to make mathematics more understandable to students. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education
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Dray, Tevian; Manogue, Corinne A. – Primus, 1999
Discusses some of the differences between the ways mathematicians and physicists view vector calculus and the gap between the way this material is traditionally taught by mathematicians and the way physicists use it. Suggests some ways to narrow the gap. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineers, Geometric Concepts
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Barzilai, Harel – Primus, 1999
Provides an overview of an ongoing calculus reform that includes cooperative learning, oral presentations, and long-term student projects. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Ashline, George; Ellis-Monaghan, Joanna – Primus, 1999
Discusses how applications from microbiology and sociology can be used to involve students. Presents a physical context for critical concepts in a first-semester calculus course. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Graphing Calculators
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Beckmann, Charlene E.; Schlicker, Steven J. – Primus, 1999
Describes a rich, investigative approach to multivariable calculus. Introduces a project in which students construct physical models of surfaces that represent real-life applications of their choice. The models, along with student-selected datasets, serve as vehicles to study most of the concepts of the course from both continuous and discrete…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Mathematical Applications
A Portfolio Problem for Second Semester Reform Calculus: The Gudermannian and the Inverted Pendulum.
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Biagini-Komas, Rob – Primus, 1999
Alternative forms of evaluation can provide deep and powerful learning experiences for students. Explains how to implement portfolios as an evaluation tool and describes a problem that was successfully implemented in a second semester reform calculus class. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education
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Gordon, Sheldon P.; Gordon, Florence S. – Primus, 1999
Describes a simple cooling experiment that can be conducted in class at the college algebra, precalculus, calculus, or differential equations level whose aim is to determine the best exponential function to fit the experimental data. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, College Mathematics, Demonstrations (Science)
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Mueller, William – Primus, 1999
Common student attitudes toward reform methods are conveyed through the thoughts of a student leaving a multivariable calculus exam and musings range over textbooks, homework, workload, group work, writing, noncomputational problems, instructional problems, instructional styles, and classroom activities. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Educational Change, Higher Education, Mathematics Education
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Wilson, Frank – Primus, 1999
Presents a murder mystery in the form of five Calculus I worksheets in which students must apply mathematics to determine which of the suspects committed the murder. Concludes that effort was made to create scenarios that realistically lend themselves to the use of mathematics. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Mathematics Activities
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Campbell, Duff – Primus, 1999
Multiplicative calculus is based on a multiplicative rate of change whereas the usual calculus is based on an additive rate of change. Describes some student investigations into multiplicative calculus, including an original student idea about multiplicative Euler's Method. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Mathematics Activities
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Mahavier, William S. – Primus, 1999
Describes a 'Moore Method' course whose purpose is to teach students to create and present in class mathematically correct proofs of theorems. Discusses grading, class discussions, ways to help students, and the extent to which to encourage cooperative learning. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Learning, Higher Education
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Revak, Marie; Pendergraft, Dave; Brown, Cynthia – Primus, 1997
Presents a murder mystery in the form of six Calculus II review problems. Students must solve the six problems to determine the murderer, murder weapon, and time and location of the murder. (AIM)
Descriptors: Area, Calculus, Differential Equations, Estimation (Mathematics)
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Witt, Ana – Primus, 1997
Describes three labs designed to help students in a first course on ordinary differential equations with three of the most common numerical difficulties they might encounter when solving initial value problems with a numerical software package. The goal of these labs is to help students advance to independent work on common numerical anomalies.…
Descriptors: Calculus, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Differential Equations
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Kenyon, Paula L.; Bardzell, Michael J. – Primus, 2001
Summarizes an interdisciplinary undergraduate research project involving experimental physics and calculus and illustrates how mathematics was used to finesse incomplete experimental information and maximize physical quantity known as jerk. Describes how calculus can be applied in the "real world" where functions are not always given by nice…
Descriptors: Calculus, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Dancis, Jerome – Primus, 2001
Students in a freshmen calculus course should become fluent in modeling physical phenomena represented by integrals, in particular geometric formulas for volumes and arc length and physical formulas for work. Describes how to train students to became fluent in such modeling and derivation of standard integral formulas. Indicates that these lessons…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Mathematical Models