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Active Calculus: things in the works this summer
Having survived both the Michigan winter and the Grand Valley winter semester, I’m excited to get working more regularly on some items related to Active Calculus. Here’s an overview of my summer projects, two of which serve as a call for … Continue reading
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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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Updated version: Active Calculus 2014
Recently I shared news that I’ve been working on a print-on-demand version of the text. Lon Miller of Orthogonal Publishing and I are in the final stages of that project, and expect by the end of the week of August 11 … Continue reading
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Coming soon: print-on-demand and AC3
Two updates for the near and not-so-near future: – This summer, I’m working to establish a print-on-demand option for bound copies; I expect this to be available no later than early August, and will post here about the option once … Continue reading
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Unglue.it
[Insert profuse apologies here regarding my limited posting over the past four months.] It is finally warm outside after an unusually brutal Michigan winter; warm weather brings the promise of many things, and one of those is more time to … Continue reading
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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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Active Calculus v.12.30.13 – updates
This fall I was glad to have a much larger number of beta testers using Active Calculus; about 10 of my GVSU colleagues used it for either our calculus I or calculus II, and at least that many other people … 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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A great text, newly free
[Sheepish apologies for my too-long absence from blogging. Life!] My friend and GVSU colleague Ted Sundstrom has recently made his wonderful text, Mathematical Reasoning, free to the public. After being originally published by Prentice Hall in two separate editions and … Continue reading
