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Existing Free (or Very Low Cost) Calculus Texts
One of the overwhelming things about the Internet (to me, at least) is just trying to keep track of what’s out there. With this post, I invite readers to contribute to a list of free (and where fitting, open) calculus … Continue reading
A different challenge to publishers
From Insider Higher Ed, an interesting article on the startup “Boundless Learning”, which endeavors to provide text-like materials to students free of charge. “It does so, essentially, through reverse engineering — identifying widely used textbooks in certain fields (three last … Continue reading
The cost of calculus texts
As fall semester begins and students return to campus, I can’t help but reflect on the cost of textbooks, and challenge myself to think about how this affects my students and me. Data from the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences … Continue reading
Open Textbooks
At Mathfest, I had the pleasure of meeting Rob Beezer and having some extended conversation with him. Rob is a longtime proponent of free and open textbooks, as well as the author of one himself. After my talk he said … Continue reading
“The limiting resource should not be access, but rather time and talent”
On Saturday morning in Madison at Mathfest, I attended a fantastic talk by Robert Ghrist, titled “Putting Topology to Work”. He has apparently given versions of this lecture in several other locations, including the Young Mathematicians’ Conference at Ohio State; … Continue reading
Mathfest Talk Slides
I am speaking in a contributed paper session at Mathfest today on the teaching and learning of calculus. If you’d like to see the slides from my presentation, they can be found at http://faculty.gvsu.edu/boelkinm/Mathfest.2012.pdf.
Where have we come from and where are we going?
While on sabbatical during the winter semester of 2012, I began drafting a free, open-source calculus text. I undertook the project in part because I felt like there wasn’t an activity-driven text available, as well as because I don’t think … Continue reading
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Talk at Mathfest: “Toward a Freer Calculus”
I am speaking at Mathfest in Madison, WI, this Friday, August 3, at 1:45 in Meeting Room Q, as part of the contributed paper session on Teaching or Learning Calculus.
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Sample Chapter of Active Calculus
In preparation for having some people pilot the text for differential calculus this fall, I am in the process of some final editing before posting the first four chapters of the text. For now, you can find chapter 1 (along … Continue reading
