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Suzanne Dorée; Jennifer Quinn – PRIMUS, 2024
This paper is a practical how-to guide to help you start using active learning or to have greater success and more fun with it. We categorize active learning techniques as Think, Pair, Share, Composite, Group, Move, or Lead and discuss how to implement activities in each category, along with advice on creating engaging, effective, and equitable…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Sequential Approach
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Robinson, Samantha – PRIMUS, 2020
This quasi-experimental, pre-post study with non-equivalent comparison groups explores the potential for resequencing of course content to affect positive change in an undergraduate, introductory statistics course at a mid-sized, flagship university that is located in a southern state. Quantitative analyses suggest that the implementation of…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Instructional Effectiveness, Introductory Courses, Statistics
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Dwyer, Dave; Gruenwald, Mark; Stickles, Joe; Axtell, Mike – PRIMUS, 2018
Resequencing Calculus is a project that has reordered the typical delivery of Calculus material to better serve the needs of STEM majors. Funded twice by the National Science Foundation, this project has produced a three-semester textbook that has been piloted at numerous institutions, large and small, public and private. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Calculus
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Roh, Kyeong Hah – PRIMUS, 2010
This article suggests an activity, called the epsilon-strip activity, as an instructional method for conceptualization of the rigorous definition of the limit of a sequence via visualization. The article also describes the learning objectives of each instructional step of the activity, and then provides detailed instructional methods to guide…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Visualization, Learning Activities
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Gass, Frederick – PRIMUS, 2006
Most beginning calculus courses spend little or no time on a technical definition of the limit concept. In most of the remaining courses, the definition presented is the traditional epsilon-delta definition. An alternative approach that bases the definition on infinite sequences has occasionally appeared in commercial textbooks but has not yet…
Descriptors: Calculus, Definitions, Scientific Concepts, Mathematical Concepts