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Is there research for or against such an approach in teaching calculus?
Copying from Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson (2nd ed., 1914):
CHAPTER I:TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE PRELIMINARY TERRORS
The preliminary terror, which chokes off most fifth-form boys from ...
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When should we get into limits in introductory calculus courses?
All of the calculus textbooks I've used (teaching at community colleges) start with the first chapter covering limits. (Perhaps after a review chapter.) I think this order is wrong.
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Evaluating the reception of (epsilon, delta) definitions
Both education researchers and mathematicians discuss the challenge of (epsilon, delta) type definitions in real analysis and the student reception of them. My impression has been that mathematicians ...
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