There is an advertisement for a course Change and Motion:Calculus Made Clear on page 37 of the February 4 issue of The New Yorker. The description includes the following statement:
Quote:The 24 lecture, 30 minutes per lecture course has been reduced from $254.75 to $69.95. I recognize that this is a bit off-topoic, but in the spirit of the many threads concerning the use of calculators in classrooms I simply want to ask "Has anyone in this forum had any experience with this calculus course? Does the course use calculators?
So why didn't you grasp calculus the first time around? In school, many of us didn't continue with mathematics and so this great achievement remains a closed door. And for those of us who did, Professor Michael Starbird can correct the clumsy classroom delivery that hid the beauty of calculus. ...