Re: What's "Developmentally Appropriate"?

[Bob LaMontagne <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>]

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From: "Brian Whatcott" <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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Subject: Re: What's "Developmentally Appropriate"?


> I speculate that "success" in teaching deep ideas of calculus by additive
> examples, means that a six year old would be able to
> identify a situation where a small increase in one variable
> is associated with a small change in a matched variable
> in a named ratio, and that the sum of the values of a matched variable
> can be counted between boundaries specified in a given variable that
> is associated with the counted variable.

Somehow, in my many semesters of taking calculus, I missed this remarkably
insightful way  of summarizing calculus. Or then again, maybe this is just a
anti-deconstructionist prank by Sokolov!!!???

Bob at PC
Where in Providence we teach integral calculus with 100% success while
students are still in the womb.