Author Archives: Matt Boelkins
Updated version: Active Calculus 2014
Recently I shared news that I’ve been working on a print-on-demand version of the text. Lon Miller of Orthogonal Publishing and I are in the final stages of that project, and expect by the end of the week of August 11 … Continue reading
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Tagged calculus, free, open source, resources, textbooks
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Coming soon: print-on-demand and AC3
Two updates for the near and not-so-near future: – This summer, I’m working to establish a print-on-demand option for bound copies; I expect this to be available no later than early August, and will post here about the option once … Continue reading
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Tagged calculus, cost, free, multivariable calculus, online, self-publishing
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Unglue.it
[Insert profuse apologies here regarding my limited posting over the past four months.] It is finally warm outside after an unusually brutal Michigan winter; warm weather brings the promise of many things, and one of those is more time to … Continue reading
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openmathbook.org
As an outgrowth of the previously-mentioned session at the Baltimore Joint Meetings on open textbooks, Albert Schueller has started a new blog, Open Mathbook, to offer “a place to promote, discuss, and develop free and open source mathematics texts.” There’s … Continue reading
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Joint Meetings 2014: free and open textbooks session
While it was certainly a good conference overall this year, last Friday at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore was particularly fantastic. From 8-11 and 3-5, we had about 15 different presenters share interesting and exciting work and opportunities in the … Continue reading
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Active Calculus v.12.30.13 – updates
This fall I was glad to have a much larger number of beta testers using Active Calculus; about 10 of my GVSU colleagues used it for either our calculus I or calculus II, and at least that many other people … Continue reading
Three months later, …
My last post was September 4, 2013. Oops. In the first week of October, I got a new (additional) job at GVSU: director of faculty advisors for freshman orientation. Given that we welcome over 4000 new first-year students each summer, … Continue reading
How my calculus class looks this fall (part 2 of 3)
In an earlier post, I thought to make my teaching more public, and then subsequently shared some reflections on how my calculus I course looks overall. In this post I’ll give an overview of how a typical week is structured, … Continue reading
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How my calculus class looks this fall (part 1 of 3)
[update: I moved some Dropbox files around and the original links were broken. I updated these on 8.11.14.] Well, it looks full. 31 students, 1 over the cap of 30, filling essentially all the seats in our regular classroom, and … Continue reading
Making my teaching more public
I’ve made a promise to blog regularly this fall on my experiences in teaching calculus I at GVSU using Active Calculus. Before starting that endeavor, here are a few overall thoughts. Teaching is an oddly private endeavor. While it is … Continue reading
