Timeline for Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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| Nov 11, 2010 at 15:31 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | If scientists want their students to learn a sequence of formal rules, I think they should be the ones to teach them. Personally I want to teach mathematics, and mindless manipulation of symbols is not math. | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 14:11 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Sep 27, 2010 at 12:07 | comment | added | Matthew Daws | +1. But, I think a point some other people have been making is that students should at least see the formal definition. But I agree that you shouldn't beat it over the head of students who aren't happy... | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 7:15 | history | answered | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |