Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S021

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68983-6, Copyright (C) 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Animating Calculus Concepts and Proof

Robert E. Kowalczyk


University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

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Adam O. Hausknecht


University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

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ABSTRACT

Today's students play and learn in the interactive animated visual worlds of the video iPod and iPhone. To bridge this media gap between their dynamic worlds and the traditional calculus text, we demonstrate new dynamic interactive visual tools that help students to fully engage in learning key calculus concepts and proofs.

Keyword(s): calculus, software