I will be updating the story A Tale Out of School – A Case Study in Higher Education. Since the updates are so brief, I will post them here. There are two news items, plus a couple of additional documents. (The documents have already been posted.) (1) 6 of the 153 engineering students that started […]
Professor Alfred Doesn’t Know What is Wrong with the Homework
October 15, 2013 by
What does it mean to “learn calculus”
October 7, 2013 by
In a recent post, Calculus on the Road, I pointed out that studnts who didn’t know the definition of a derivative were making good grades in their calculus class. So what does “learning calculus” mean? At some “elite” schools it doesn’t mean knowing any formal definition of a limit (part of the definition of a derivative). For […]
Calculus on the Road
October 5, 2013 by
I’m sitting in a Starbucks in NorthCarolina next to three young community college students who are studying calculus on a Saturday morning. They were nice enough to answer my two questions. The fist was “What is the definition of the derivative?” Two said they don’t know, then one said it is a rate. I pressed him […]
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