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Is there any university or college in any country where failure and dropout rates in Calculus are not so high?
Many selective STEM-focused colleges/universities require calculus as part of the general education requirements, meaning that their overall dropout rate would place an upper bound on their calculus-...
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How to properly define volume for beginner calculus students?
How to properly define volume for beginner calculus students?
I'd say that the Apostol's approach, which I found after looking through several books, is the best. His definition of volume is axiomatic....
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For calculus students, what should be the intuition or motivation behind series?
The fact of the matter is series is sort of viscerally off the beaten track of limits/derivatives/minmax apps/integral toolbag/integral apps. It's there because it is needed later (and covered more) ...
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How to properly define volume for beginner calculus students?
As a former student, I would prefer an actual example of calculating a solid volume.
My favorite one is calculating the formula for the volume of pyramid, say hexagonal one.
You can do that by ...
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