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Re: learning calculus through mathematica

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• Subject: [mg107971] Re: learning calculus through mathematica
• From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
• Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:28:02 -0500 (EST)
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There is a substantial list of links to calculus resources at
http://www.calculus.org/  This includes complete on-line courses.

I have searched in vain for objective evidence that students who learn
calculus with a computer algebra system at hand learn it better than
students without such a tool. (e.g. higher exam grades.)

  This is disappointing to people who would like every student to learn 
how to use a CAS at the earliest opportunity.

   Historically, the big success for calc students was using computers 
to plot functions. Handy to understand slopes and areas. Very easy to use.
Not so prone to arithmetic mistakes, though with problems of their own.

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