Give them one, and ask them to find the distance traveled. The natural thing to do based on their previous work is to try and approximate with piecewise-linear or piecewise-constant graphs.

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

This paper deals with approximation methods for fractional operators. Fractional calculus is a new concept for engineers and we need tools to analyze and utilize the same. One way to do the same is to ...