Understandings of First-year Mathematics Majors about Differential Calculus — One Episode on Differentiability

Authors

Antonio Olimpio Junior, Math Education Candidate

Document Type

Presentation Abstract

Presentation Date

4-20-2006

Abstract

The transition to undergraduate mathematics has been reported by researchers in Mathematics Education as being a source of many difficulties for many freshmen. In this talk, I will present, from my doctoral research in Mathematics Education, an episode with a pair of students focusing on the concept of differentiability. In the research, I investigated understandings about the concepts of function, limit, continuity and derivative produced by full-time first-year students from UNESP - The State University of Sao Paulo at Rio Claro, Brazil.

Additional Details

Thursday, 20 April 2006
4:10 p.m. in Math 109

Recommended Citation

Olimpio, Antonio Junior, "Understandings of First-year Mathematics Majors about Differential Calculus — One Episode on Differentiability" (2006). Colloquia of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. 222.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathcolloquia/222