Comments on: It's Time For An Intuition-First Calculus Course

By: Varun Govind

Varun Govind — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:47:28 +0000

sry, that was Hi Kalid

By: Varun Govind

Varun Govind — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:42:54 +0000

H Kalid,
When asked 'what is the best book for calculus(beginners)?' , Arjun, my friend told me about your website.and I was like' what difference is it gonna make? ' but i saw the difference. I was amazed by the way You began a calculus course....i was wondering for days, 'What actually is this calculus?' and i was enlightened after reading your intro.
I am gonna read the whole of your calculus book.......

By: SQ

SQ — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:31:37 +0000

I'm glad to have stumbled across your website (from the interview on Coursera: Learning How to Learn). I absolutely love math and used to go off topic during classes to find the very intuition you explain here. There was never enough time to do both learning and completing the course requirements. So I'm super excited to finally get to understand!! Thank you so much :)

By: kalid

kalid — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:28:09 +0000

In reply to Tim McGrath.

Thanks Tim, I agree. I like introducing derivatives and integrals together -- they're a pair -- and then the FTOC seems like a natural conclusion (they really are a pair!). I don't like teaching limits, derivatives, and integrals in isolation and then "glue them together". I think we can have a natural intuition that the parts fit together, without waiting for the FTOC to tell us.

Taylor's Theorem is a good follow-up too, and I like the philosophical implications of it (successively refining imperfect models to recreate the original).