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Calculus is often described as the mathematics of change. And one of the most significant things we can do about change is predict it.

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Stade, E., Stade, E. (2023). A Context for Calculus. In: Calculus: A Modeling and Computational Thinking Approach. Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24681-4_1

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