Educating about sustainability while enhancing calculus.

• Autores: Thomas J. Pfaff
• Localización: Primus: problems, resources, and issues in mathematics undergraduate studies, ISSN 1051-1970, Vol. 21, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 338-350
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/10511970903226426
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• Resumen

  • We give an overview of why it is important to include sustainability in mathematics classes and provide specific examples of how to do this for a calculus class. We illustrate that when students use Excel to fit curves to real data, fundamentally important questions about sustainability become calculus questions about those curves.