John Monaghan, Robert Ely, Márcia M. F. Pinto, Mike Thomas

The Learning and Teaching of Calculus (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for people who teach calculus - and especially for people who teach student teachers, who will in turn teach calculus. The calculus considered is elementary calculus of a single variable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000917666
• Artikelnr.: 68444848

Autorenporträt

John Monaghan is a professor at the University of Agder, Norway and an emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, UK. He has taught in schools and universities, and the learning and teaching of calculus has been a research interest throughout his career.

Robert Ely is a professor of mathematics education at the University of Idaho, United States. He studies the reasoning of students with infinitesimals, integrals, variables, and argumentation, and he is particularly interested in the perspectives that history can bring to such reasoning.

Márcia M.F. Pinto is Associate Professor at a public university in Brazil. She has experience teaching mathematics to prospective teachers, mathematicians and engineers and co-authoring textbooks for distance learning courses on calculus.

Mike Thomas is Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Auckland University, New Zealand. His research explores advanced mathematical thinking at school and university, including the role of representations, versatility and digital technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Series foreword
1 - Introduction
2 - Calculus across time and over countries
3 - Making sense of limits and continuity
4 - Making sense of differentiation
5 - Integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus
6 - Interlude: The ordering of chapters 3, 4 and 5
7 - Calculus applications: differential equations and integration
8 - Beyond elementary calculus
Index