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October 12, 2011 04:09 pm PDT

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 [...]


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