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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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Tagged calculus, open source, resources, technology
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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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Active Calculus 2019 updates
I’m excited to share several important updates: 1. new landing page at https://activecalculus.org 2. updated versions of Active Calculus (single variable, 2018 edition) in HTML, PDF, and print (with updated activities workbooks [1-4], [5-8], too) 3. updated version of Active Prelude … Continue reading
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Followup to my EMES seminar
On Tuesday 10/2, I was honored to speak in the MIT Electronic Seminar on Mathematics Education. The recorded video from the seminar is now available to view; my slides are also posted. If you watch/listen to the recording, I apologize … Continue reading
Online versions of Daily Prep Assignments
One of the ancillaries that we offer to support the use of Active Calculus is a collection of “daily preparation assignments”. These assignments are modeled on Robert Talbert’s “guided practice” and provide students a short list of concrete tasks to … Continue reading
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Active Calculus 2018 – new edition
I’m excited to share several updates to Active Calculus: 1. New 2018 edition of Active Calculus – single variable The 2018 HTML version is now live at https://activecalculus.org/single/. The PDF will be posted in the near future on a new page … Continue reading
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