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Breaking The Rules: Bringing Calculus Into The Humanities Classroom, Brent M. Blackwell
Breaking The Rules: Bringing Calculus Into The Humanities Classroom, Brent M. Blackwell
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Calculus in an honors humanities course offers students of different learning styles, interests, and aptitudes an opportunity to understand and appreciate the full range of the humanities, including natural science and mathematics. Students investigate the intellectual history and development of the calculus by reading work by and about Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton. Without having to understand any of the mathematics, students explore the rich intellectual debates that characterize the late seventeenth century and in so doing help bridge the traditional STEM-non-STEM divide that exists today.