Workshop Precalculus

Discovery with Graphing Calculators

Nancy Baxter Hastings

544 pages, parution le 06/02/2003

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Résumé

Workshop Precalculus provides students with a bridge to the study of calculus. It seeks to help students develop the confidence, understanding, and skills necessary for continuing their study of mathematics.

While the Table of Contents may look very similar to other precalculus texts, Workshop Precalculus reexamines how students learn and, therefore, how we should teach. Teaching using the Workshop approach involves instructors giving up some command and control of the classroom in favor of giving the students more control and responsibility for their own learning. The Workshop approach involves eliminating the distinction between classroom and laboratory work. By systematizing and supporting a simple interactive teaching format, Workshop Precalculus helps us implement sound methods. The method alternates between three primary components: Summary Discussions, Introductory Remarks, and Collaborative Activities. When employed in conjunction with other simple but profound teaching suggestions, Workshop Precalculus can make your teaching experience a joy once again.

Supported by rich Instructor Resources, any motivated faculty member can make the transition, with minimal obstacles, from the course they've always taught to the course they've always wanted to teach.

An alternative approach to teaching precalculus is also being developed by Nancy Baxter Hastings and Allan J. Rossman. Click here for information on NSF-funded summer faculty development on Nancy and Allan's alternate project.

Workshop Precalculus is part of Dickinson College's Workshop Mathematics Project, which includes both Workshop Calculus (also by Nancy Baxter Hastings) and Workshop Statistics (by the author's Dickinson colleague, Allan Rossman). Based on their experiences and those of others who have taught workshop courses, the Workshop Mathematics team has developed the helpful list, which Allan calls A Dozen Suggestions (Plus or Minus Two), highlighted in the box below.

Contents

Unit 1: Properties of Functions

Analyzing Linear Functions
Analyzing Smooth Curves
Representing Functions

Unit 2: Polynomial and Rational Functions

Power Functions
Polynomial Functions
Rational Functions

Unit 3: New Functions from Old

Combining Functions
Reflecting Functions
Shifting, Stretching, and Compressing Graphs of Functions

Unit 4: More Function Classes

Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Trigonometric Functions
Analytic Trigonometry
Fitting Curves to Discrete Functions

Appendix: Using theTI-83 Grqphing Calculator in Workshop Precalculus

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Key College Publishing
Auteur(s)	Nancy Baxter Hastings
Parution	06/02/2003
Nb. de pages	544
Format	21,6 x 28
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1407g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781930190115
ISBN13	978-1-930190-11-5