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What finally made calculus click for me was my class in Numerical Mathematics where I actually wrote programs to take derivatives. Also because of that course,
by knicholes 5y ago
What finally made calculus click for me was my class in Numerical Mathematics where I actually wrote programs to take derivatives. Also because of that course, functions became familiar, fun, and easy to rearrange. It was life changing.
- a-dub 5y agogoing between discrete and continuous really helped me too. i think such a thing, using computers even, could do wonders for ug math education. some kind of awesome integrated class where kids work with robot toy cars comes to mind as an interesting way it could be presented. (start by measuring their behavior and collecting data, computing crude integrals on the computer, moving into analysis using the reals)