Re: [MATHEDCC] Stats & Calc Queries

Jerry Uhl (juhl@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:00:34 -0500

Bruce-
Thanks for the plug.
The books are available from Addison-Wesley (Davis, Porta and
Uhl,Calculus&Mathematica).
The Mathematica based courseware is available on the web at
http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu.

-Jerry Uhl

At 9:06 AM -0700 6/19/98, Bruce Yoshiwara wrote:
>(2) If you're using Mathematica for calculus, you probably should
>acquaint yourself with Calculus and Mathematica, an entire course
>presented as a series of Mathematica notebooks.
>
>I have not personally used those notebooks for my classes, but I do
>admire them. Each lesson is divided into three interactive parts,
>with increasing involvement demanded of the student for each section.
>Part of the beauty of this set up is that you can edit any lesson to
>better fit your syllabus or your way of presenting ideas. And even if
>you hate all the lessons, you can learn a lot about Mathematica code
>from what the authors have done.
>
>You can probably look it up from Wolfram's (maker of Mathematica) home
>page. Otherwise, I think Addison-Wesley was (is?) the publisher, and
>one of the three authors is Jerry Uhl. (My apologies to the other
>authors for forgetting their names.)
>
>Bruce Yoshiwara
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Alvar J. Garcia" <aj317@FREENET.BUFFALO.EDU>
>....
>
>(2) I'm using the computer lab next year (with Mathematica 3.0.1) to
>help teach AP Calculus BC next year (for the first time). Please,
>does anyone out there have any pearls of wisdom?
>
>TIA,
>
>A. Jorge Garcia Teacher/Professor Mathematics/CompSci
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