Maple via Calculus: A Tutorial Approach - Softcover

Lopez, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817637710 ISBN 13: 9780817637712

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 1994

Synopsis

Modern software tools like Maple have the potential to alter radically the way mathematics is taught, learned, and done. Bringing such tools into the classroom during lectures, assignments, and examinations means that new ways oflooking at mathematics can becomepermanent fixtures ofthe curriculum. It is universal access that will make a software-based approach to mathematics become the norm. In 1988, with NSF funding under an III grant, I had the opportunity to bring Maple into the calculus classroom at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Since then a new curriculum based on the availability ofcomputer algebra systems has evolved at RHIT and in my own courses. This volume contains a record of some of the insights gained into pedagogy using Maple in calculus. The activities and ideas captured in these Maple worksheets reflect concepts in calculus imple­ mented in Maple. There is an overt message to the reader that carries with it a side effect. However, it is possible that for one reader the side effect is the message and the message is the side effect! I had intended to put before my audience examples extracted from my Maple based curriculum to entice a wider acceptance ofthe benefits of making a computer algebra system become the basis of a revised calculus syllabus. By examples I had hoped to demonstrate the "rightness" of using software tools for teaching and learning calculus.

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Maple via Calculus - Tutorial Approach

Synopsis

This text is designed for the undergraduate maths curriculum. It teaches calculus itself, and the computer algebra system Maple, through a series of tutorials. These consist of conceptual learning activities and exploratory interaction with the computer. Fewer than 90 Maple commands are required to do all the calculus activities in the book, thus making it a useful text for learning Maple basics. The techniques illustrated in this book have been tested in classrooms in the USA and Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817637710
• ISBN 13: 9780817637712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166