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Interactive Calculus Activities

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Reviewed:: Mar 2, 2023 by Mathematics

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Overview:

This site contains a collection of interactive applets and activities to aid users in visualizing and learning Calculus.

This collection of interactive visualizations, activities and games can assist in the learning of calculus. This site covers important topics in Calculus.

Type of Material:

Collection.

Recommended Uses:

In class demonstrations, individual study/review, homework assignments, classroom activities, or Handouts for many undergraduate lower level math courses.

Technical Requirements:

Any Browser.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

To provide users with an online interactive set of tools to aid in learning and understanding Calculus concepts.

Target Student Population:

High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, Calculus students.

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

College Algebra, Calculus

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Strengths:

This list of highly interactive activities covers a wide variety of topics from Calculus I, II, and III. Although intended to be embedded in custom textbooks through LibreTexts, these applets can individually be shared with students in an LMS. Many of the activities make use of humorous graphics and scenarios to help make sense of potentially difficult topics.

This site provides user with several online visualization tools and activities. Users can choose which one related to their topic of interests. All tools and activities are designed in a way that users can easily use them, and they have guides/descriptions on how to use them in a very simple way for any user, so users can easily follow directions to use any of the available interactive tools or activities. This site offers a great help for students who are taking lower-level undergraduate math classes. This site can be included as a part of lecture or as an extra online tutorial for students.

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None.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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These applets and activities would be beneficial to both students and instructors. They can easily be embedded in a course LMS or used for an in-class demonstration.

Both instructor and student can use this site in Calculus and other basic related math courses in a lecture about one of the topics in the site. Students/Instructors can rate the quality of the site section/article after reading or taking the specified activity. This site also offers helpful YouTube videos for some activities.

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None.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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The applets and activities included in this collection are interactive and user friendly. Colorful heading and the use of color in graphs make activities very visually appealing.

Students and instructors can easily access any of the available tools or activities with just clicking on the topic of their interest and following all steps need to get the correct results.

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None.

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