We are pleased to announce that activecalculus.org has been updated to publish the 2nd edition. Putting your mouse over “Active Multi” in the menu will open a drop-down where you can access both the 1st and 2nd editions. Last summer, we wrote about the differences between ACM1E and ACM2E.
Ready Right Now
- The URL activecalculus.org/multi now points to the text of the 2nd edition.
- If you are still planning to teach from the first edition, you can simply edit any existing links you’re using so that they read activecalculus.org/multi1e/___ and they will point to the page you are accustomed to.
- We’re nowhere near thinking about a 3rd edition yet, but if you want to future-proof yourself while teaching from the 2nd edition, you can use activecalculus.org/multi2e/___
- The webpage about ACM has been updated to reflect ACM2E.
- A PDF version of ACM2E is available. Creating a quality PDF of a book the length of ACM2E takes a lot of manual adjustments, especially to deal with the interactive three-dimensional graphics. Thus, you should think of this as a preview of a future print version of ACM2E. Our focus for the next 10 months will be fine-tuning the PDF version. Whenever we think we have an improved version that is worth sharing, we will update the version on the website. We generally will not announce this updated version, but the date of last build appears on the third page of the PDF with the authors.
- A PDF version of the activities workbook for ACM2E is available. Our work on the PDF version of the book will also lead to improvements to the activities workbook, including fine-tuning the space provided for students to work in. You can also print worksheets from the HTML version of the text as described in this blog post. (Although Matt refers to ACS and APC there, this is a feature in all three books.)
- ACM2E is now fully supported on Runestone Academy for instructors to use. You can browse ACM2E on Runestone Academy and find it in the list of books to use when you create a course.
- Unlike ACS, the Preview Activities for ACM2E are not WeBWorK or Doenet and cannot be assigned for grading inside Runestone Academy. However, all the WeBWorK exercises can be assigned and graded in Runestone Academy.
- We have pre-built an assignment for each section of the text containing all WeBWorK exercises. After creating your own course on Runestone Academy, you can copy these assignments into it:
- Go to the Instructor Dashboard.
- Choose Assignments & Grading and then Copy Assignments.
- Choose the course acmulti.
- We suggest copying all assignments.
- You can then set due dates and delete problems where you want a shorter assignment. In future semesters, you will be able to copy assignments from your past courses as well as from acmulti so you don’t have to do all the setup from our assignments each semester.
- An instructor’s solutions manual with solutions to (most) Preview Activities, Activities, and (non-WeBWorK) exercises is available. Join the ACM Google Group to learn more about how to access the instructor’s solutions manual.
- If you have previously gotten access to the Google Drive folder with the solutions manual, there is now an updated PDF in there for ACM2E.
- If you have access to your own WeBWorK server and would like a bundle of .def files that you can load corresponding to the sections in the text, it is available in the same Google Drive folder as the instructor’s solutions manual.
What’s left?
- We are working to prepare a hard copy version of ACM2E that students will be able to purchase, similar to what is available for ACS. This will also include an activities workbook for ACM2E.
- Fine-tuned PDFs of the text and activities workbook are expected for Fall 2027 classes.
- Purchasable hard copies are expected for Spring 2028 classes.
- Interactive sizes need some fine-tuning even in the HTML version of the text. We are actively working on this and intend to post an improved version of the HTML version before Spring 2027 classes. We will ensure that all URLs remain stable when doing this update so that instructors do not need to worry about updating links.
