Tag Archives: calculus
New workbooks: now with space between prompts
I’m excited to announce a change in the layout of the workbooks for Active Calculus (Single) and Active Prelude. Thanks to some recent developments in the PreTeXt worksheet environment and especially thanks to Mitch Keller’s technical expertise and production genius, … Continue reading
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More on Active Calculus in Runestone
As noted in an earlier post, at Mathfest in Tampa, Chrissy Safranski and I led a minicourse on teaching Active Calculus and using Runestone. We had a great time doing that and here I want to share a few updates … Continue reading
Active Calculus – Multivariable
In case you hadn’t heard already, Steve Schlicker is retiring soon (Congrats!) and we have taken over managing and editing Active Calculus – Multivariable (ACM). A few years ago, we started writing material for a chapter on vector calculus topics which … Continue reading
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Two free, open calculus texts for specialized audiences
If you are teaching a class titled something like “Business Calculus” or “Calculus for the Biological Sciences” anytime soon, this post is for you. Mike May and Anneke Bart of Saint Louis University have an excellent text for business calculus, … Continue reading
Active Calculus news and updates for Fall 2023
The summer of 2023 has been an exciting time of new developments and opportunities related to Active Calculus. In this post I’ll offer a short overview of the biggest items, and then offer more details in subsequent posts. View this … Continue reading
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Fall 2022 reminders and updates
A list of things you might find helpful if you are teaching or learning from APC, ACS, or ACM: + Updated HTML There have been minor updates to the HTML for APC and ACS. These are almost all tiny and … Continue reading
A Calc 2 Teachalong
My wife is a professional knitter. She designs patterns, teaches classes and techniques, works at major events like Rhinebeck (think “yarn conferences”) and manages the social media for a yarn company and a yarn shop. Yarn folks often engage in … Continue reading
Alternate ending: draft of a new Chapter 8
I’ve written a rough draft of a very different version of Chapter 8 for Active Calculus (single variable), and I am interested in feedback from users. TL;DR version: I have come to think that the Taylor series representations of the … Continue reading
Short user survey – Active Calculus (single variable)
Regarding the single variable text, I’m trying to gain some information about adoption, how the text is used, and what additional features are desirable. If you use the text in your teaching, I’d greatly appreciate you taking 5 minutes to … Continue reading
How to Use Active Calculus
I added new sections to the preface of Active Calculus this year, including “Students! Read This!” and “Instructors: Read This!” My main goal in writing these was to help better ensure that users of the text are aware of some … Continue reading
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