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October 12, 2011 04:09 pm PDT
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Using chocolate to teach calculus
Tim Chartier, an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, has a series of ingenious and delicious methods for illustrating fundamental concepts from calculus using chocolates. I had a brilliant calculus teacher, Alvin Anson, but I think a little chocolate would have improved even his techniques: Wheres the chocolate? Rather than shading a square, we [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M7LWp_MbkeA/using-chocolate-to-teach-calculus.html
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