Tag Archives: Calc I

As with most people that have studied mathematics beyond high school, I first encountered implicit differentiation in my initial semester of calculus. It seemed like magic then. In the intervening years, I have seen the idea and the underlying theory … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the term I made the decision / was instructed not to teach the \(\varepsilon\)-\(\delta\) definition of a limit. This class really is directed at engineering and natural sciences majors, so that is, I think, a reasonable … Continue reading →

The big event of the day was returning exams. I’m not sure why, but I always feel kind of uncomfortable when I hand back exams to students that performed poorly. I’m note sure what to do with that… Anyway, the … Continue reading →

I gave an exam during the last class, so rather than the usual format of “What I Taught”/”What Worked”/”What Didn’t Work”, I am going to talk about the exam itself. The exam consisted of 8 multiple choice questions, 8 true/false … Continue reading →

I got locked out of the classroom a few days ago (fortunately, there was one other person in the building at 5:30 on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of July, and he happened to have a key which opened … Continue reading →

An exam is coming up soon, and the students are beginning to panic a bit about quizzes. I keep trying to tell them that the quizzes are a pretty low key affair (they don’t make up a huge portion of … Continue reading →

Before the term began, I was essentially handed a calendar of sections from the text that needed to be covered on which exams. Since my credentials are newly minted and I have not taught the class before in a university … Continue reading →

With the first week behind us, the class is starting to settle into something of a rhythm. Things are going by very quickly, but the students seem more comfortable with the homework system, and after two quizzes have a better … Continue reading →

Thanks to a Thursday holiday, we finished our first week of calculus after four lectures. I’m not sure that I would want it any other way—we had time to ease into the material, work out technical kinks with the software, … Continue reading →

An evening class just before a day off, and I had almost full attendance. We had our first quiz, which went off without too much grumbling, and I managed to present a couple of easy proofs. Aside from running out … Continue reading →