The Teaching and Learning of Definite Integrals: A Special Issue Guest Editorial

How do students learn definite integrals? Exploring students' learning opportunities

“…Many experts in teaching calculus view an understanding of the integral as a necessary central concept or skill for genuine understanding of first-year calculus (Sofronas et al, 2011). Being able to interpret and model with definite integrals is an important skill in pure mathematics and science as well (Ely, 2017;Ely & Jones, 2023;Jones et al, 2017). Yet, compared with research to understand how students learn the limit concept and derivatives, the integral concept has been getting more attention from mathematics education researchers recently (Jones, 2013;Jones et al, 2017;Sealey, 2014;Wagner, 2018).…”