Using Animations in the Teaching of Calculus Concepts

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Giraldo, J.H. (2002). Using Animations in the Teaching of Calculus Concepts. In D. Willis et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (pp. 1078-1079). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2002
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2002
ISBN 1-880094-44-4
  Dee Anna Willis, Jerry Price & Niki Davis
AACE

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Jose H. Giraldo, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, United States

Abstract

During the last decade a lot of emphasis has been placed in the understanding of the concepts in the teaching of calculus de-emphasizing the computational part. The use of technology has increased tremendously to help the student understand the basics ideas behind crucial concepts such as the derivative and integral. Animation of these concepts is one way to use technology as a pedagogical tool to help the students gain insight and understanding of them. From the stand point of teachers' preparation it will have a very positive repercussion, since the teachers will be teaching concepts which they understand better, and are more meaningful for them than just a simple formula or expression. In this paper I am reporting on the use of animations as a pedagogical tool, and possible effects in the teachers preparation. All these animations were created with Mathematica, a computer algebra system (CAS).

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