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Toward New Vision in Teaching Calculus
Usually the first course in mathematics is calculus. Its a core course in the
curriculum of the Business, Engineering and the Sciences. However many students
face difficulties to learn calculus. These difficulties are often caused by the
prior fear of mathematics. The students today cant live without using computer
technology. The uses of computer for teaching and learning can transform the
boring traditional methodology of teach to more active and attractive method.
In this paper, we will show how we can use Excel in teaching calculus to
improve our students learning and understanding through different types of
applications ranging from Business to Engineering. The effectiveness of the
proposed methodology was tested on a random sample of 45 students from
different majors over a period of two semesters.Comment: IERI Procedia, Elsevier. 201
The Promise of Open Educational Resources
This whitepaper defines OER, discusses what underlies the open educational resources movement and the current status of open educational resources, presents MIT's OpenCourseware project as a case-study, and concludes with future visions for teaching and learning, challenges, and observations
A Burgessian critique of nominalistic tendencies in contemporary mathematics and its historiography
We analyze the developments in mathematical rigor from the viewpoint of a
Burgessian critique of nominalistic reconstructions. We apply such a critique
to the reconstruction of infinitesimal analysis accomplished through the
efforts of Cantor, Dedekind, and Weierstrass; to the reconstruction of Cauchy's
foundational work associated with the work of Boyer and Grabiner; and to
Bishop's constructivist reconstruction of classical analysis. We examine the
effects of a nominalist disposition on historiography, teaching, and research.Comment: 57 pages; 3 figures. Corrected misprint
Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science
The Park City Math Institute (PCMI) 2016 Summer Undergraduate Faculty Program
met for the purpose of composing guidelines for undergraduate programs in Data
Science. The group consisted of 25 undergraduate faculty from a variety of
institutions in the U.S., primarily from the disciplines of mathematics,
statistics and computer science. These guidelines are meant to provide some
structure for institutions planning for or revising a major in Data Science
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