Author Archives: Matt Boelkins
Active Calculus – Print on Demand
I’m excited to announce that the print-on-demand version of Active Calculus has arrived at several online booksellers. Via the comparison site Fetchbook, you can currently find options with Barnes & Noble and a couple of the non-US Amazon sites (for … Continue reading
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Active Calculus – Print on Demand — almost here
In my mail today, I got a printed copy of the proof for the book. It was incredibly fun to see the text go from its purely electronic format and the planned cover image and see it actually become the … Continue reading
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Carroll College: Clicker Questions and Chapter Zero for Active Calculus
One of the most enjoyable aspects of this free and open textbook project has been all of the new friends I’ve made in the mathematics community. I just got to see several of them in Portland at Mathfest, including Eric … Continue reading
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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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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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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
