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Play Dough and Tangent Planes
Students discuss the concept of tangent lines and planes using play dough and tooth picks in a Calculus 3 class. They grapple with the idea how the tangent plane changes for different points on the surface.
The class had 25 students and met two times a week for 75 minutes each and one time for 50 minutes.
Representations of Tangent Planes
Students develop a representation of a tangent plane in Calculus 3. They use play dough to represent the paraboloid and toothpicks for tangent lines.
The class had 25 students and met two times a week for 75 minutes each and one time for 50 minutes.
A typical class: Christine von Renesse
This video shows the typical elements of Christine von Renesse's classes.
Students explore in groups and present their thinking later in whole class
discussions.
This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.
