This site is by the students and for the students.
This is a site where MATH 1271 students (or anyone else, really) can
share materials. It is something like a "wiki" site, but with a small
amount of vetting by me, the instructor.
If you develop materials for the course that you think might benefit
others, please send them to me (adams@math.umn.edu) and I will give a
quick look for any obvious errors. If I agree that the materials are
helpful, then I'll post them, with your email address as the author.
You can send me the file in many different formats if you like (ppt,
pptx, doc, docx, pdf, etc.), but, if you can, please do include a pdf
version, since most platforms read pdf files.
Other students using the materials who may find errors or points of
confusion, or who may have suggestions, are advised to contact the
author, not me. (The author may wish to contact me, if he/she is
unsure of some mathematical point.)
Revised materials can be resubmitted to me, and I'll repost them.
Revisions should be emailed in all the same formats as the original
posting.
- Author: "Rebecca Orrison" <orris012@umn.edu>
- Semester: Spring 2013
- Material: Formal definitions and mathematical proofs from calculus
- URL: http://www.proofwiki.org/wiki/Category:Calculus
- Comments: I found this site to be helpful in that it has very concise
summaries and clear presentation of material.
- Author: "Roberth Garcia" <garci592@umn.edu>
- Semester: Fall 2012
- Material: How to go from the graph of f to the graph of its derivative f'
- URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbtma_UQpro
- Comments: The topic I had a problem with was Topic 0280,
which only spent three slides talking about how to graph f' from the graph of f.
The link above is to a youtube video I used that helped me understand it better.
It's from Graphing a Derivative Function,
which is part of a course (MIT 18.01SC Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2010).
- Author: "Abraham Hjelle" <hjel0057@umn.edu>
- Semester: Spring 2012
- Material: Optional extra problems
- URL: http://interactmath.com/home.aspx
- Comments: This is an online interactive calculus module that covers pretty much
everything, and is very comprehensive. The drop-down menu you will
see is just the list of textbooks to choose from but the one I've been
using is
"Hass: University Calculus with Early Trancendentals".
As far as I can tell, it doesn't really matter which one you choose,
so I settled on that one simply because it has the greatest amount of
problems and therefore the most practice to offer, most of the others
have far fewer problems to do. It's nice for me though because one of
the things it does, is to generate new numbers/values for each
problem, randomly for that particular question question so you can try
the practice question /concept over and over again, but with different
values (and therefore answers) until you really "get it". It also
offers comprehensive step-by-step examples for most questions and will
even walk you through many of the questions step by step if you're
having trouble, getting through it yourself.
It's completely free to use, you don't even have to register or put in
an email address or anything. You go to the site and start.
- Author: "Amanda Unarut" <unaru001@umn.edu>
- Semester: Spring 2012
- Material: Some notation from 1271
- Download:
docx
pdf