CALCULUS FOR MIDDLE LEVEL TEACHERS.

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: graduate standing and MATH 311 or equivalent. This course is intended for middle school teachers and focuses on conceptual and procedural understandings of limit, continuity, differentiation and integration. It includes the techniques and applications of calculus and use of technology to explore and represent fundamental concepts of calculus. It also addresses the historical development of calculus and the contributions to its development from many cultures. Students will create a project focusing on connections between calculus, the middle school curriculum and current understandings of how students learn  mathematics.