Monthly Archives: June 2013

Active Calculus is not like the NSA

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Matt Boelkins

So there’s a new brand of e-book out there, and it has an NSA-like flavor:  an e-reader that tracks what students have read. From a recent NYT article, “They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, … Continue reading →

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What is the purpose of calculus?

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Matt Boelkins

One of my springtime habits this year has been to stop by Robert Talbert‘s office at 3:35 pm as I make my way back from teaching a linear algebra course (that runs in 6 weeks’ time, incidentally!).  He’s been teaching … Continue reading →

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A great text, newly free

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Matt Boelkins

[Sheepish apologies for my too-long absence from blogging.  Life!] My friend and GVSU colleague Ted Sundstrom has recently made his wonderful text, Mathematical Reasoning, free to the public.  After being originally published by Prentice Hall in two separate editions and … Continue reading →

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