RESEARCH TITLE: ANALYSIS ON LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN CALCULUS I

(DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS) ENCOUNTERED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE

BILIRAN PROVINCE STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Objectives

1. Gathering data through the profile of the respondents:

a. Name
b. Address
c. Age
d. Gender
e. Course
f. SHS strand
g. General Average in Mathematics (optional)
2. To determine the difficulties of solving Calculus through the learning of basic
concepts:
a. Difficulty on manipulating Algebraic statements.
i. Basic Mathematics
ii. Equations and Inequalities
iii. Functions and Linear Functions
iv. Polynomial and Rational Functions
v. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
vi. Systems of Equations and Inequalities
vii. Analytic Geometry
viii. Sequences, Probability, and Counting Theory
b. Difficulty in manipulating Trigonometric statements.
i. Trigonometry with right triangles
ii. Trigonometry with general triangles
iii. The unit circle definition of sine, cosine, and tangent
iv. Graphs of trigonometric Functions
v. Trigonometric Equation and Identities
3. Student Difficulties of Learning Functions, Limits and Continuity;
a. Definitions of Limits, Function and Continuity
b. Evaluating Functions
c. Graphing a Function
 d. Theorems of Limits
e. Right-hand and Left-hand Limits
f. Finite and Infinite Continuities

4. Students’ Difficulties of Derivative Learning

a. Derivatives, Slope and Rate of Change
b. Algebraic Function
i. Derivative of Constant
ii. Derivative of a Sum, Product and Quotient
iii. Chain Rule
iv. Higher Derivatives
v. Implicit Function
vi. Derivative in Implicit Form
c. Polynomial Curves
i. Graph of Polynomial Curves
ii. Increasing and Decreasing Functions
iii. Maxima and Minima
iv. Concavity
v. Points of Inflection
vi. Sketching Polynomial Curves
d. Applications of Derivatives
i. Applications of Maxima and Minima
ii. Use of Auxiliary Variable
iii. Time-rates
iv. Discontinuous Derivatives

5. Develop a solution plan as intervention scheme.