Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:First year calculus is often taught in a way that is very burdensome to the student. Students have to memorize a diversity of processes for essentially performing the same task. However, many calculus processes can be simplified and streamlined so that fewer concepts can provide more flexibility and capability for first-year students. Comments: 13 pages Subjects: History and Overview (math.HO) MSC classes: 26E35 Cite as: arXiv:1811.03459 [math.HO] (or arXiv:1811.03459v1 [math.HO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1811.03459 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Journal reference: Communications of the Blyth Institute 1:1 (2019) 17-27 Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.33014/issn.2640-5652.1.1.bartlett.1 DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Jonathan Bartlett [view email] [v1] Wed, 7 Nov 2018 15:04:08 UTC (23 KB)