Introduction to Functions and Calculus I

Harvard FAS

Calculus stands as one of the great intellectual achievements of the last millennium, developed by Newton and Leibniz to understand motion, growth, and change. Math Ma is the first half of a full-year calculus sequence that studies functions and their rates of change through a coherent mathematical narrative that blends precalculus and calculus.A central theme of Math Ma is understanding, describing, and calculating rates of change. Students develop and analyze mechanistic models built on…