Author Archives: Matt Boelkins
A great text, newly free
[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
Using Geogebra in Calculus
Last week Thursday I gave a colloquium talk at a local college on some of my favorite results in the area of mathematics known as “the geometry of polynomials.” During the talk, I used a couple of demonstrations built in … Continue reading
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What Leads to the High Prices of Textbooks?
Lots of hard work goes into the writing of any textbook. No question about that. But few textbook companies front that money to the author(s). Further, while textbook companies regularly cite the high costs of developing and producing texts, those … Continue reading
It’s Text Selection Time of Year
If your school is like mine, the university bookstore is clamoring for textbook selections to be announced for the coming year. To that end, I want to add my voice to the many who are urging faculty to consider free … Continue reading
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Going Free
I’m starting to get more and more email traffic that puts me in contact with people or organizations who are taking concrete steps to implement an overall strategy for the adoption of free and/or open source textbooks. This post is … Continue reading
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Chronicle Articles on Textbooks, E-Books, and More
My friend and colleague Robert Talbert recently pointed me to a big collection of articles over at the Chronicle that are focused on the many issues surrounding textbooks on college campuses. Lots of worthwhile reading there. One article asks about … Continue reading
Secondary Public Offering: thru integral calculus
As promised last week, here is , now with four additional chapters that can be used for the second semester of university calculus. The link above is to the full text, all of chapters 1-8, as a Google document that … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, calculus, differential calculus, free, integral calculus, open source, textbooks
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One year later
A year ago at this time, I was about to embark on my sabbatical. I had drafted a couple of brief sections of what would become Active Calculus, but had almost nothing of substance written. By May, I had a … Continue reading
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From fall to winter, from differential to integral: news and updates
So things have been pretty quiet here on my blog since early in fall term. While there are all of the usual reasons for being busy, the main source of my nonposting has been that I’ve tried to devote much … Continue reading
Holy cow … it’s Thanksgiving
So today my blog got hacked. Someone out there seems to want to use my site to advertise getting paid for something, and now they’ve managed to do it to my Twitter feed (3 weeks ago) and the blog. I … Continue reading
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