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Desmos versions of Active Prelude Preview Activities
My colleague Marcia Frobish at GVSU has instantiated each of the preview activities in Active Prelude to Calculus as a Desmos activity. If you are a Desmos user, you should check these out.
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Google groups for Active Calculus
I’m launching two groups for information about the Active Calculus texts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/active-calculus-announce, where there will be infrequent posts announcing new editions and features, and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/active-calculus-users, which is a forum for instructors who use (or are considering using) the text. At … 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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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
MIT Electronic Seminar on Mathematics Education – how I structure my calculus classes for active learning
I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to be one of the speakers in the excellent MIT EMES seminar. My presentation on Tuesday, 10/2/18, at noon EST will be a practice-focused discussion centered on how I structure my calculus … 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 Preview Activities in Desmos
My GVSU colleagues Marcia Frobish and Taylor Short have created Desmos versions of nearly all of the preview activities in Active Calculus (single variable). You can see the full collection here, and each link offers an option to preview what students … Continue reading
Prelude to Active Calculus – feedback sought
I’ve been awarded a sabbatical for the fall semester of 2018 to write a new free, open-source textbook for GVSU’s new MTH 124: Functions and Models. The purpose of this course is to prepare students not-yet-ready for calculus for a … Continue reading
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Check out sustainabilitymath.org
My friend and graduate school colleague Tom Pfaff of Ithaca College has done a lot of great work on issues related to sustainability. He has a wonderful collection of free resources for instructors at his blog, http://sustainabilitymath.org/. In particular, you can … Continue reading
Metacognition in a calculus prep course
As usual, fall semester flew by. On Monday, August 28, I met with my two classes for the first time, and on that day we did an activity that I recounted in a Facebook post, where I wrote: “I followed … Continue reading