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| Sep 29, 2010 at 7:12 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | This semester I am teaching Calculus I following Rogawski's textbook. The chapter on limits spends some serious effort on getting comfortable with average rates of change, going as far as creating a table of values (easy to do with a graphing calculator) and numerically estimating the limit, before going on to derivatives in the next chapter devoted to derivatives. By the way, I don't see how this approach could accomplish a worthy goal stated in Rationale 3. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 21:54 | history | answered | Alexander Woo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |