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It's easy to fall into the trap of relying on rote memorization of integration rules, but problems like (⋆) force students to truly understand the concepts behi
by noobcoder 3y ago
It's easy to fall into the trap of relying on rote memorization of integration rules, but problems like (⋆) force students to truly understand the concepts behind the math.
- mkl 3y agoI don't think that's true. Floor is a piecewise function, so you follow the rule for integrating piecewise functions and break it into a sum of integrals of each piece, then follow the rules for those (they're all basically the same, so you don't need to do 1000 of them). You don't need to think about periodic functions at all.
- chii 3y ago> they're all basically the same > You don't need to think about periodic functions at all. except you just described that which is called period...so it's actually good for a student to notice these things, and use the correct term, so that they can associate the name with the idea.
- mkl 3y agoI don't think many would notice doing it that way, as it's disguised by the different limits and constant factors. The indefinite integrals are what is basically the same on the surface. There's more to periodicity than different sections being similar on the surface, and there's certainly no need for them to use the correct terms.