Re: Re: learning calculus through mathematica
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- Subject: [mg107999] Re: [mg107971] Re: learning calculus through mathematica
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:30:28 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Try contacting the folks at the Calculus & Mathematica project at University of Illinois and Ohio State. They should be able to point you to, or provide, the objective studies they did on performance in their Calculus & Mathematica program vs. standard courses. As I recall, one of their methods was to compare grades of the two groups in subsequent courses. Unless I recall incorrectly, I posted about that very project to this group before. Whether or not I did, please do try to follow up on my suggestion above. On 3/4/2010 5:28 AM, Richard Fateman wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- From: Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Re: learning calculus through mathematica