In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...

THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...

THIS book gives a thorough introductory study of the properties of ordinary points in the differential geometry of curves and surfaces in 3-space. Chapter 1 gives an account of twisted curves, Chapter ...

Students come to Bethel with a variety of backgrounds and histories in math that may have included previous work in algebra, precalculus, or calculus. Success in Bethel’s Precalculus and Calculus 1 ...

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 56-71 (16 pages) This study investigated the effects of various levels of secondary school calculus experience on ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. At 8 a.m. in a Salazar Hall classroom, Cal State Los Angeles instructor Jennica Melendez was leading her Calculus 1 class through a lively ...