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Visualizing Calculus with Professor Gigliola Staffilani

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Calculus - Visual Learning Methods

Giliola and her colleagues have brought visual learning methods into the classroom. Sometimes those methods might look like a demonstration in class. One that i have used in my class as some point, which is really very hard to grasp, is lagrange multiplyus. This is a method that we used to find maximum minimum with constraints. Let's think up a sphere, for example. When you have a surface that grows, so the maximum radius until the sphere touches the boundary of a square. when that touching happens, then you know the two or toono vectors are going to be parallel.

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