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- Title
Honors Calculus: An Historical Approach.
- Authors
Timmons, Todd
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's formulation of the calculus course for honors college students. The author had used the historical approach inorder to create awareness and interest to students. It was used as a motivation to allow students to appreciate the subject more and pursue calculus in farther levels. The scrutinous study of the history of calculus generated a debate over the real father of calculus whether its Isaac Newton or Gottfried Leibniz. The author can not determine the success rate of the subject due to lack of evidential data but he is confident that it had created an active participation on his honors students.
- Subjects
CALCULUS education; CALCULUS problems; MATHEMATICAL analysis; COLLEGE honors courses; HISTORICAL analysis; NEWTON, Isaac, 1642-1727; LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
- Publication
Honors in Practice, 2008, Vol 4, p87
- ISSN
1559-0143
- Publication type
Article