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

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper S100

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-64488-3, Copyright (C) 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Dynamic Calculus Tools for Visualizing Calculus

Paul Seeburger


Monroe Community College


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ABSTRACT

The author demonstrates numerous visualization tools he has created using Excel and Java that visually explore many calculus concepts including tangent lines, rectilinear motion, Riemann sums, Euler's Method, slope fields, Taylor polynomials, washer and shell methods, 3D graphs of functions of two variables, etc. Most are available on the Web.

Keyword(s): calculus, Java, spreadsheets