Use Games to Motivate Your Calculus Students （用游戏来激发你的微积分的学生）.pdfVIP

USE GAMES TO MOTIVATE YOUR CALCULUS STUDENTS Robert E. Kowalczyk and Adam O. Hausknecht University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Mathematics Department, 285 Old Westport Road, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300 rkowalczyk@ and ahausknecht@ As mathematics instructors, we are always searching for new ways to motivate our stu- dents’ learning of precalculus, calculus and differential equations. How many times have we heard our students say: “When will we ever use this?” or “This is boring.”