How to Explain Usefulness of Different Results When Teaching Calculus: Example of the Mean Value Theorem
Olga M. Kosheleva · Journal of Uncertain Systems · 2013
Students learn better when they understand why they need to learn the specic material, why this material is useful in their own discipline. In this paper, we show how to explain usefulness of simple calculus results to engineering and science students { on the example of such a seemingly theoretical result as the Mean Value Theorem. c