Teaching and Learning of Calculus

This survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the learning an

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David Bressoud Imène Ghedamsi Victor Martinez-Luaces Günter Törner

Teaching and Learning of Calculus

ICME-13 Topical Surveys Series editor Gabriele Kaiser, Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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David Bressoud · Imène Ghedamsi Victor Martinez-Luaces · Günter Törner

Teaching and Learning of Calculus

David Bressoud Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Macalester College Saint Paul, MN USA Imène Ghedamsi IPEIT University of Tunis Tunis Tunisia

Victor Martinez-Luaces FJR/Faculty of Engineering University of the Republic Montevideo Uruguay Günter Törner Faculty of Mathematics University of Duisburg-Essen Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

ISSN  2366-5947 ISSN  2366-5955  (electronic) ICME-13 Topical Surveys ISBN 978-3-319-32974-1 ISBN 978-3-319-32975-8  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32975-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939361 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. This book is published open access. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, ­ ­adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes made are indicated. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is publ