Check Out Student Research Projects In Calculus Brought To You By Edward D. Gaughan Distributed In Electronic Text

don't teach Calculus, but I checked this book out of the library and read it because it gave some great ideas for projects in math classes, I liked the ingenuity of each project and the comments made by the author about each project, Some had never been assigned to a class, but some had been assigned, revised, and assigned again, He told what types of problems students had with each problem and whether or not they enjoyed working on it, It was really helpful to be able to benefit from the author's experiences and what worked and did not work, He also has a section about how to assess the the completed projects, It doesn't sound like it would be that interesting, but honestly I plowed right through it with little effort, because it was

so useful, A good resource for anyone teaching math in high school or college who wants ideas for projects, My projects will be quite different since I teach statistics, but the overall idea is the same, Changing the way students learn calculus was the goal of the authors of this excellent guidebook, In the Spring of, they began work on a student project approach to calculus, You can use their methods in teaching your own calculus courses, Overprojects are presented, all of them ready to assign to your students in single and multivariable calculus, Each project is a multistep, takehome problem, allowing students to work both individually and in groups,

Each project has accompanying notes to the instructor reporting students' experiences, The notes contain information on prerequisites, list the main topics the project explores, and suggest helpful hints, The authors have also provided several introductory chapters to help instructors use projects successfully in their classes and begin to create their own,

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