Author Archives: Matt Boelkins
Active Calculus Preview Activities in Desmos
My GVSU colleagues Marcia Frobish and Taylor Short have created Desmos versions of nearly all of the preview activities in Active Calculus (single variable). You can see the full collection here, and each link offers an option to preview what students … Continue reading
Active Calculus 2018 Workbooks – now available in print
New for 2018, we’ve created bound, print versions of the activities workbooks for Active Calculus. There’s one for chapters 1-4 (the typical first semester differential calculus material), and another for chapters 5-8 (the typical second semester integral calculus). Each workbook … Continue reading
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Active Calculus 2018: PDF and print versions now available
In addition to the aforementioned HTML, the 2018 PDF and print versions of both Active Calculus – Single Variable and Active Calculus – Multivariable are now available. Here are the various links: Active Calculus – Single Variable PDF version Active … Continue reading
Active Calculus 2018 – new edition
I’m excited to share several updates to Active Calculus: 1. New 2018 edition of Active Calculus – single variable The 2018 HTML version is now live at https://activecalculus.org/single/. The PDF will be posted in the near future on a new page … Continue reading
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Prelude to Active Calculus – feedback sought
I’ve been awarded a sabbatical for the fall semester of 2018 to write a new free, open-source textbook for GVSU’s new MTH 124: Functions and Models. The purpose of this course is to prepare students not-yet-ready for calculus for a … Continue reading
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Edfinity: a textbook-agnostic, NSF-funded nearly free online homework system
I’ve corresponded over the past couple of years with an education entrepreneur named Shivram about his company Edfinity. They have an interesting project where they are working on an easy-to-use interface for online homework that allows instructors to access open … Continue reading
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A few updates to the HTML version of Active Calculus
I’ve made the following corrections to fix some typos and other errors: The statement of the quotient rule in Section 2.5 mistakenly stipulated that the derivative of the denominator be nonzero, when of course it’s the denominator function itself must … Continue reading
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Check out sustainabilitymath.org
My friend and graduate school colleague Tom Pfaff of Ithaca College has done a lot of great work on issues related to sustainability. He has a wonderful collection of free resources for instructors at his blog, http://sustainabilitymath.org/. In particular, you can … Continue reading
A new home for Active Calculus: https://activecalculus.org
I’m pleased to announce that the HTML version of Active Calculus will now be found at https://activecalculus.org/single/. At https://activecalculus.org/ you’ll find a landing page that includes an overview of features of the text, links to the various versions of the text, … Continue reading
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More Linear Algebra
Many years ago, Gil Strang wrote a wonderful short essay titled “Too Much Calculus.” His thesis: calculus and linear algebra are imbalanced in the curriculum. Even as the author of a calculus text, I totally agree. Our students need more … Continue reading
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