This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...

This is probably the last of three articles on how piecewise-linear functions could be used as a helpful on-ramp to the big ideas in calculus. In the first article, we saw how it’s possible to develop ...

Over recent decades, approximation theory has evolved to incorporate sophisticated operator-based techniques that extend classical sampling methods. Central to these developments is the use of ...