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Maplets for Calculus

Doug Meade 3053
January 24 2006
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Maplets for Calculus is a collection of maplets designed to help students practice their calculus problem-solving skills and to assist instructors in providing effective classroom demonstrations (including 2- and 3-D visualization -- even animation). The maplets cover all major topics in single-variable calculus - limits, derivatives, integrals, differential equations, sequences, series, and polar coordinates. Some of the maplets help to build intuition and some provide practice with routine computational techniques. An individual license for Maplets for Calculus is available through the MapleConnect program at . Lab/Classroom bundles and site licenses are also available. The complete list of maplets and sample videos may be seen at . Most of the maplets support both algorithmically-generated (random) problems as well as user-entered problems. This allows students to enter a specific problem (from a textbook), or use the maplet for drill practice in preparation for a quiz or exam. The 40 maplets in this collection are designed to be highly pedagogical. Most of the maplets that come with Maple are calculators - you tell the maplet something you want to visualize or compute and the maplet shows or computes the requested object. By contrast, the Maplets for Calculus maplets ask the student a question and guides the student through the solution. The maplets require users to have Maple 9.5 or Maple 10. For a period of three years after purchase, all service packs and updates will be made available free of charge to the customer. The co-authors of Maplets for Calculus are Phil Yasskin () and Doug Meade (). The authors welcome any inquiries or feedback that might help to improve the Maplets for Calculus collection -- including suggestions for additional Maplets.
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