Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area
This article describes a task leading to work on curve sketching, simultaneous equations and integration to find the area enclosed between two curves. An initial closed question is used to confront students with a provocative answer, which they then explore in a much more open-ended way.
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Taylor & Francis Group
2014
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29529/ |