Category Archives: Resources
Last day at AIM: meet some of my new friends
One of the very best parts of the workshop this week has been the time I’ve gotten to spend with the people here, some of whom I had followed online or traded email with, but never met in person. Others … Continue reading
More from AIM: developments in free & open math texts
So much to share, so just going to go with a bulleted list for now. Hope to flesh out more over the coming months. The American Institute of Mathematics is a cool place and they have an excellent organizational scheme. … Continue reading
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Resources to complement Active Calculus
I’ve recently had interactions with several different faculty who have been working on materials to support those of us who teach from Active Calculus. This post is a summary of some different things that are (freely) available to users: Clicker … Continue reading
Active Calculus – Multivariable: initial public offering
Steve, David, and I are pleased to announce that a first public version of Active Calculus – Multivariable is now available for download. You can find the file directly at http://gvsu.edu/s/Wb, or from the general Active Calculus site. If you are … Continue reading
Additional resources for Active Calculus
I’m excited to announce some recent or ongoing developments related to Active Calculus. Robert Talbert and Steve Schlicker at GVSU are embarking on a set of supporting videos for chapters 5-8 of the text. You can see the emerging list … 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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Tagged activities, calculus, clicker questions, open source, resources
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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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Tagged free, online, open source, resources, self-publishing, technology, textbooks
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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
Active Calculus: now endorsed by the American Institute of Mathematics
One of the goals of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is “to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks.” Their editorial board maintains a list of approved texts that have been reviewed according to their … Continue reading
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