Abstract

Widespread dissatisfaction with the traditional calculus course and recent technological advances have created new opportunities and challenges for mathematics educators. Symbolic computation systems (and some hand-held calculators) can now do many of the routine problems frequently assigned in first-year calculus courses. In this paper we describe a project that explores how the graphical, symbolic, and numerical computation capabilities of a modern symbolic computation system can be used in a first-year calculus course that focuses on the development of reasoning skills based on an understanding of calculus concepts.

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