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| Oct 17, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | guest | If you do a lot of calculus problems, and in particular write out all the details, you'll find that you get practice in algebra as well as calculus. In particular, you can't take the attitude that "that's just algebra", on a missed problem. But rewrite the whole thing. That you have to do entire problems. So a mistake in algebra becomes an opportunity to rewrite the entire problem, deepening the synaptic grooves in both algebra AND calculus (since you're redoing the whole problem). Note the same applies with chemistry and physics homeworks. Treat math errors as topic errors. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 0:36 | comment | added | paul garrett | To be clear: puking is not necessary, but perhaps letting of preconceptions is. :) | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 0:35 | comment | added | paul garrett | Maybe without the necessity of puking, I'd agree that nearly all students' perceived "difficulties" in calculus are actually incapacities in middle-school algebra, ... not to mention trigonometry, although the latter is perverse, in itself, since the way it's usually taught ignores complex numbers and the ultimate clarification of trig functions by observing that they're expressible in terms of the complex exponential... | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 20:36 | comment | added | Jhecht | That's a good point - all of my students' problems in Calculus aren't Calculus, but the algebra needed to simplify. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | rbp | yes, do more problems! | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 19:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 19:26 | history | answered | markt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |