Tactile Reinforcement for Early Calculus Concepts: grocery Bags and Laser Beams

• Autores: Randall Cone
• Localización: Primus: problems, resources, and issues in mathematics undergraduate studies, ISSN 1051-1970, Vol. 23, Nº. 7, 2013, págs. 617-626
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/10511970.2012.751947
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• Resumen

  • In order to facilitate student participation in freshman-level undergraduate mathematics classes, we describe two hands-on activities that engage the interest, and promote tactile involvement, of students in early calculus concepts. These activities are: using manipulatives to teach and reinforce concepts surrounding the chain rule in single-variable calculus, and creating an interactive exercise to motivate the use of elementary numerical approximations (e.g., the trapezoidal and simpson rules) of integrals.