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Short Calculus
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Short Calculus
About the Course Organiser:
Ph. D. student at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University. Former math undergrad.
No of Seats:
15
Course Status:
Completed Members
Joe C
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Alan
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Alexa
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Bakhy
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Bryli
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Maria
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Paul
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srava
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Summary
(There is an etherpad version of this content at http://pad.p2pu.org/short-calculus, feel free to edit there if you want to make quick changes/suggestions.)
The plan for this course is to work together, using various free learning tools, to create a repository of solved problems in Calculus 1.
The plan for the course is based on the outline at http://www.sosmath.com/calculus/calculus.html -- see this link for some more details, but note that we will certainly not be restricting ourselves to this resource!
The high-level outline for the course is:
- Week 1: sequences & series
- Week 2: limits and continuity
- Week 3: differentiation
- Week 4: integration
- Week 5: techniques of integration
- Week 6: taylor polynomials and power series
We will meet for live conversations one or two times per week (frequency and exact schedule to be decided by course participants).
Learning objectives
By the end of the course participants should all have a reasonable grasp of differential and integral calculus.
Schedule/Syllabus
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Comments
sign me up for the course
sign me up for the course please
Hi Stefan: Thanks for your
Hi Stefan: Thanks for your interest! You'll have to apply (which you can do any time between the 10th and the 26th of January) - and you'll have to complete the sign-up task (write up a pre-calc problem and solution in LaTeX). Best wishes!
There is the "Join the
There is the "Join the course" button at the top left. You can use this to send the sign-up problem to Joe. This is going to be so much fun!
I would like to sign up too.
I would like to sign up too. What type of problem should I try to create? Any thing off the top of my head
Hi Edrina: There is a precalc
Hi Edrina:
There is a precalc textbook here with some discussion to look at if you want: http://www.wmueller.com/precalculus/
But for a source of actual precalc problems, I'd strongly recommend http://www.khanacademy.org/exercises (there are some calculus problems there as well!). You need a google or facebook login and then you can click on a "star" to try some problems from that topic. You can also start at the very beginning with addition if you want to :).
until when can we apply for
until when can we apply for the course?
I don't think I'll close
I don't think I'll close applications until the 26th.
Hi Joe - Is it too late to
Hi Joe - Is it too late to help out as a facilitator?
I added you to the course -
I added you to the course - I'll look forward to talking more about how to collaborate on this :)