We will move among graphical, numerical and algebraic representations of central concepts. This way I hope you will gain a better, deeper and more useful understanding of calculus ideas. This emphasis on concepts does not mean we shall ignore symbol manipulations or hand computation. Some manipulative practice and skill build and support conceptual understanding. Some of you may have had mathematics courses that were based on the transmission, or absorption, view of teaching and learning.
Teaching consists of transmitting sets of established facts, skills, and concepts to students.
I do not accept this view. I am a constructivist . Constructivists believe that knowledge is actively created or invented by the person, not passively received from the environment. No one true reality exists, only individual interpretations of the world. These interpretations are shaped by experience and social interactions.