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Calculus is often viewed as a gateway to more §technical college majors, such as engineering, §computer science and teaching of mathematics. The §high rate of students changing their majors from §science-oriented to less mathematically rigorous §majors can be observed at any University. Students §struggle with passing multivariate content of the §calculus college sequence (calculus I, II, and III) §in particular, the visual aspect of the course. In §the course of semester-long study, observed students §divided into three distinct groups according to §their mathematical visualization preference and §mathematical accuracy characteristics. This book §provides an opportunity for mathematics education §community to view some of the basic visual §mathematical concepts within multivariate context §through the students eyes. The results were §analyzed through the theoretical frame of Krutetskii §(1976), Presmeg s (1985, 1988) mathematical §visualization instrument and types of imagery; and §Guzman s (2002) types of visualization. In addition, §analysis of students errors was made within §Donaldson s (1963) classification of errors.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics

• Full title: Is This Cylinder Left or Right?
• Subtitle: Analytical and Visual Understanding of Surface Areas of Cylinders, Spheres, Pyramids and Prisms by Multivariate Calculus Students
• Author: Yelena Meadows
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9783639134698
• ISBN: 3639134699
• ID: 06822166
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 345 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2009

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