Comments on: Kepler’s Laws, reprise

By: Aimless Wanderings « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

Aimless Wanderings « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:29:54 +0000

[...] students read the awful section in the textbook on Kepler’s laws. Then I had them read the paper that my multivariable calculus students wrote two years ago. What was cool was that one of my students this year told me when they looked at the paper, they [...]

By: I feel awesome « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

I feel awesome « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:13:38 +0000

[...] by me — was something to the effect of “Now that I had to do all that writing for the Kepler paper, I now think I know what sorts of things I’m needing to explain, that I wasn’t [...]

By: Ms. Cookie

Ms. Cookie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:45:53 +0000

This textbook writing you’re sounds really exciting and sounds like something the students will remember forever about their high school experience. I wonder if it could also be scaled down in other classes to (say) precalculus where students are confused by book examples and explanations of one topic, and could write their own versions to teach “newbie” precalculus students. Hmmm.

Ms. Cookie