(1) If you are teaching Calculus I, out of 10 points, how many points would you give to this student and why? (2) Is this a reasonable assessment question for Calculus I?

I've been sitting in a Calculus II class where students are learning various integration techniques - u-substitution, integration by parts, trig substitution, partial fraction decomposition, etc. But so much of exercises are really just algebraic manipulation. Is that normal?

I was helping a student in College Algebra. She was working on a problem that asked her to evaluate a composition of functions u and w when x = 7, where u(x) = x^2 + 6 and w(x) = SQRT(x + 9). As she calculated, she used her calculator to calculate 7^2 + 6 and once again 55 + 9. Clearly her lack of

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There is an interesting article, What is a Mathematical Concept?", by Martin Simon in the recent issue of Mathematics Teacher: Learning & Thinking. I wonder what people think about Simon's idea.