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...however, full conceptual understanding is frequently not achieved. In this article, we examine the extent to which college calculus courses meet these objectives by administering a twelve-question test to thirty students who had just completed a course in calculus at a Mexican university.
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The above analysis of the solutions given by the participants shows that even when university calculus courses pursue an understanding of important concepts, students fail to obtain full conceptual comprehension of some topics, for example, the meaning of the value of a function at a point, which plays a role in various situations in calculus, the composition of two or more functions, the definition of the derivative of a function and the FTC.
VICTOR GUEVARA
Instituto Politecnico Nacional
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This page is a summary of: On conceptual aspects of calculus: a study with engineering students from a Mexican university, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0020739x.2018.1543812.
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