Stacey Peters
Stacey Peters
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Anytime you can use real life examples in teaching is a positive experience for the students. Studying the cars on the track and translating the data from runs will help the students learn how calculus has many uses.
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It's a lot better when they are running. You can smell the fuel. You can smell the burnt rubber. Ideally, the students can feel, hear, see and smell how calculus works.
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We use the derivative to find that a rate of change of distance is velocity and we use integral to find that the area under a velocity curve will give us distance.