Tag Archives: open source

New workbooks: now with space between prompts

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Matt Boelkins

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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Math with all the feels

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Matt Boelkins

The following is a guest post from David Austin. David is Professor of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University, author of the free OER text Understanding Linear Algebra, chair of the American Institute of Mathematics’ Open Textbook Initiative Editorial Board, … Continue reading →

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Two free, open calculus texts for specialized audiences

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Matt Boelkins

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 →

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Active Calculus news and updates for Fall 2023

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Matt Boelkins

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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Getting ready for Mathfest

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Matt Boelkins

At Mathfest, Chrissy Safranski and I will be leading a minicourse titled “Teaching Active Calculus using Runestone” that will introduce participants to the Runestone platform. Runestone is a Learning Engineering Analytics Platform that allows students to log in to their … Continue reading →

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Alternate ending: draft of a new Chapter 8

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Matt Boelkins

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 →

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PreTeXt, Runestone, and the exciting future of open textbooks

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Matt Boelkins

In late June, I was fortunate to attend a week-long UTMOST workshop in Ann Arbor that brought together education researchers, PreTeXt developers, Runestone developers, and textbook authors. The newest part to me was learning more about Runestone. Runestone Academy was … Continue reading →

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Back to school updates for Active Prelude, Active Single, and Active Multi

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Matt Boelkins

Here is my just-in-time post for back to school, Fall 2020 Edition. Overall: The two main things to know about the Active Calculus textbooks (Active Prelude to Calculus (APC), Active Calculus Single Variable (ACS), and Active Calculus Multivariable (ACM)) are … Continue reading →

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PreTeXt & the Future of Textbooks

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Matt Boelkins

Rob Beezer’s free, open authoring platform PreTeXt is what enables the fantastic HTML output for Active Calculus and so many other free, open textbooks. As part of my work with the PreTeXt Advocacy Group (Sally Koutsoliotas, Jennifer Nordstrom, Bruce Yoshiwara, … Continue reading →

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Active Calculus 2019 updates

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Matt Boelkins

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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