Category Archives: Resources
Is Calculus MOOCable?
There’s been lots of discussion in higher education regarding the emergence of MOOCs: Massively Open Online Courses. These courses are free to anyone interested and are taken in an entirely online format; they are typically taught by well-known professors from … Continue reading
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
Initial Public Offering: Differential Calculus
[Update in January 2013: in addition to an updated version of the differential portion of the text, I’m pleased to publicly share four additional chapters for integral calculus. See the download page at my GVSU site and/or this post here … Continue reading
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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
Project CAPABLE at USNA
Several professors at the US Naval Academy have an ongoing project of developing in-class and out-of-class activities and projects for students. CAPABLE stands for Calculus Acquisition through Project and Activity Based Learning. Check them out at https://sites.google.com/site/temporarycapablesite/, including the link … Continue reading
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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
Geogebra and Marc Renault’s calculus applets
One of my favorite programs is Geogebra. I discovered it years ago when one of my students was submitting superior graphics in a geometry class in typeset work; I asked her what software she was using and how she found … Continue reading
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