In summer 2013, Manhattan College introduced an online summer "bridge to calculus" course for incoming first-year students in science, engineering, and mathematics education who marginally did not receive a calculus recommendation based on a mathematics placement test. In this paper, we describe the...
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This is my first post, so forgive me if the same topic has already been posted before. I am going to teach myself calculus over the summer. Last year (my freshman year in college) I took calculus I. The class was a challenge, and I know that I could have done better. We used th...
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Further reading (part 2): Course notes, section 6. There is a lot of information online onfinite difference approximations,these 18.303 notes, orSection 5.7 ofNumerical Recipes. The JuliaFiniteDifferences.jl packageprovides lots of algorithms to compute finite-difference approximations; a particularly ...
Despite the overall improvement and encouraging outcomes to the course, further learning challenges still need to be addressed. This study seeks to answer the following research questions: 1) What concepts are most successfully learned by students in a redesigned Pre-Calculus course? 2) What ...
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After the summer break, freshmen enroll in “Calculus 2” during the fall, their second semester as college students. This course is typically equivalent to “Calculus 3” (MVC) offered by many North American universities. 1.2. Who Are Digital Natives? The majority of our students, if not ...
Making Good of a Pandemic: A Long-Distance Remedial Summer Course in CalculusCOVID-19 pandemicPANDEMICSTEACHER-student communicationCALCULUSTEACHING experienceSTUDENT engagementMEDIATIONWhat do you do when a change in enrollment policies leaves you with more than 600 students in a first-term university ...