I’ve never liked memorizing formulas. I would rather know where they came from or be able to tie it to something I already know. One of my least favorite formulas to remember and explain was the formula for the second derivative of a curve given in parametric form. No longer. If and, then the traditional…
I discovered in doing next week’s post that I apparently never wrote about implicit differentiation. So here goes – an extra post this week! Implicit Differentiation The technique of implicit differentiation allows you to find slopes of relations given by equations that are not written as functions, or may even be impossible to write as…
When I started this blog several years ago I was hoping my readers would ask questions that we could discuss or submit ideas for additional topics to write about. This has not really happened, but I’m still very open to the idea. (That was a HINT.) Since that first year when I had the entire…
I’ve never liked memorizing formulas. I would rather know where they came from or be able to tie it to something I already know. One of my least favorite formulas to remember and explain was the formula for the second derivative of a curve given in parametric form. No longer. If and, then the tradition…
Teaching Calculus 