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Math 10 Course Goals:
This main goal of the course is to gain an understanding and appreciation
of the basic ideas underlying a remarkable achievement of the human
intellect: the differential calculus of single-variable
functions.
Notice that the goal is not to provide the student with a set of
computational techniques and procedures for solving a set of predefined
problems. Rather, the emphasis is on the fundamental concepts and how
they relate to each other. Computation is an important part of this
process, but it is not the only one, nor is it the primary one. Students
who approach this course assuming that "the answer" is the only thing that
counts will find it frustrating and are not likely to do well.
The material to be covered includes:
- Functions
- Limits and continuity
- Derivatives of functions
- Rules of differentiation
- Tangents and tangent lines
- Related rates
- Maxima and minima of functions
- Introduction to integration
See the the course
outline for more details.
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Created: Dec 28 1998 ---
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