10.4122/1.1000054676
Abrahamsson, Fredrik
Fredrik
Abrahamsson
fredrik.abrahamsson@jth.hj.se
An attempt to handle the calculus problem
7th International CONCEIVE DESIGN IMPLEMENT OPERATE Conference
2011
2011
For many years now, we have experienced a negative trend concerning the
mathematics skill level of our new engineering students. This has been
particularly noticeable in the calculus course, which is mandatory for all
engineering programs at Jönköping University. To handle this problem, we have
made some structural changes to the way we teach the subject, emphasizing the
teaching efforts to standard type problems – named ‘A-problems’. A list
of categories of such A-problems have been constructed, the purpose of which is
to help the student identify the most important ideas and develop the basic
skills needed to understand calculus.