Integrating applications in the technion calculus course: A supplementary instruction experiment

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Aroshas, Shuki ^a,b   Verner, Igor ^a   Berman, Avi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Faculty of Mathematics

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