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

Denver, Colorado, March 17-20, 2011

Paper S045

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68984-4, Copyright (C) 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.

How Can I Use Maple to Help My Students Learn Multivariable Calculus?

Thomas G. Wangler

Benedictine University

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ABSTRACT

Maple is a powerful software program that can be used to help students learn math. With the advent of clickable-calculus, students are able to use Maple independently in a relatively short amount of time. In this article I will illustrate the kinds of things an instructor can do with Maple to help the students 'learn math by seeing math'. Many of the illustrations are presented in the context of the adventures of Lisa the lovable lightning bug.

Keyword(s): multivariable calculus, Maple