Teaching Basic Calculus Using SAGE

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Author(s): Katerina Tsarava (University of Macedonia, Greece), Spyros T. Halkidis (University of Macedonia, Greece & Model Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Pantelis Venardos (Model Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki, Greece)and George Stephanides (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 19
Source title: Strategic Role of Tertiary Education and Technologies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)and Robert D. Tennyson (University of Minnesota, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4233-1.ch014

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Environment & Agriculture / Information Science Reference / Sustainable Development

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This chapter presents an attempt to review basic calculus concepts to high school students with the help of a Computer Algebra System, namely SAGE. A review lesson on limits and derivatives as well as an introduction of the bisection method for finding roots of continuous functions is presented. The evaluation of the lesson by the students is analyzed. The aim of this chapter is to examine the power of SAGE in reviewing basic calculus concepts, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of SAGE compared to other Computer Algebra Systems, as well as the benefit from using a computer system in making concepts such as the squeeze theorem for computing limits of functions more clear.

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