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The Case Of The Missing Speedometer: The First Day Of Calculus, Marion D. Cohen
The Case Of The Missing Speedometer: The First Day Of Calculus, Marion D. Cohen
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This article describes the way I've been teaching the first day of Calc I, my single-variable Calculus class. By the end of the hour students have (A) dictated difference quotients for me to write on the board, (B) dictated one example of the limit of difference-quotients definition of derivative of a function at a point, and (C) calculated a few derivatives. The more rigorous definitions of function, of operations on functions, and of limits can wait until later. This approach has been very successful, and students have said they "get it this time around."
Improving Project Success In An Online Mathematics Course, David Shoenthal
Improving Project Success In An Online Mathematics Course, David Shoenthal
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
With more mathematics courses migrating to online environments, it is important to know whether these courses are comparable to their face-to-face counterparts. To that end, in two different years, I taught an online and a face-to-face section of the same finite mathematics course. After analyzing the data regarding differences in the two sections for the first year, I incorporated changes intended to improve the consistency of project success between the two sections as well as the overall success of the class projects in the online section. My main tool was mimicking the interaction of group members and providing immediate instructor …