Calculus 11x11x11 (11w2178)
Organizers
Manny Estabrooks (Red Deer College)
Pamini Thangarajah (Mount Royal University)
Objectives
The objectives of this workshop are to:
- Identify all the common challenges faced by Alberta post secondary institutions with regards to their introductory calculus courses and look for common solutions. Ideally participants would leave with a summary document to be disseminated among all the participating post secondary institutions.
Consequently the objectives would include:
- Decide if a common core curriculum is needed and if so what is it going to be.
- Decide on if it is appropriate for common assessment criteria and if so what the criteria would be.
- Decide on the role of technology in calculus.
Introductory Calculus is an important course both to students and post secondary institutions. Any improvements that can be made should be made. B.C. has had a core calculus curriculum document for several years now; it is both timely and relevant that we consider this approach as well.
