Electronic Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper C023

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Modeling Projects for Student Investigation

Barry Tesman


Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013

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ABSTRACT

We present projects appropriate for students in a typical calculus course studying 'Applications of Integration.' They involve using a CAS to model real data in three situations:center of mass, average value of a function, and volumes of solids of revolution.

Keyword(s): modeling, computer algebra systems, calculus