Category Archives: Editing

Active Calculus: things in the works this summer

Having survived both the Michigan winter and the Grand Valley winter semester, I’m excited to get working more regularly on some items related to Active Calculus.  Here’s an overview of my summer projects, two of which serve as a call 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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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

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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

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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

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