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09-26-2008, 09:44 AM
The Teaching Company - Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear
4 DVD's and companion guidebooks in vg condition.
$55 ppd, uninsured, media rate in US (NOW $50 as per note below)
(Retails for about $250 and goes on sale for about $70.)
Recommended as an intro to calculus - watch it before or in early stages of a high school or college calculus class.
Professor Starbird is committed to correcting the bewildering way that the beauty of calculus was hidden from many of us in school.
Calculus originated in our desire to understand motion, which is change in position over time. Starbird presents and explores the fundamental ideas, then shows how they can be understood and applied in many settings.
Every step is in English rather than "mathese." Formulas are important, certainly, but the course takes the approach that every equation is in fact also a sentence that can be understood, and solved, in English.
This course is crafted to make the key concepts and triumphs of calculus accessible to nonmathematicians. It requires only a basic acquaintance with beginning high-school level algebra and geometry.
4 DVD's and companion guidebooks in vg condition.
$55 ppd, uninsured, media rate in US (NOW $50 as per note below)
(Retails for about $250 and goes on sale for about $70.)
Recommended as an intro to calculus - watch it before or in early stages of a high school or college calculus class.
Professor Starbird is committed to correcting the bewildering way that the beauty of calculus was hidden from many of us in school.
Calculus originated in our desire to understand motion, which is change in position over time. Starbird presents and explores the fundamental ideas, then shows how they can be understood and applied in many settings.
Every step is in English rather than "mathese." Formulas are important, certainly, but the course takes the approach that every equation is in fact also a sentence that can be understood, and solved, in English.
This course is crafted to make the key concepts and triumphs of calculus accessible to nonmathematicians. It requires only a basic acquaintance with beginning high-school level algebra and geometry.