Internet-based Multivariable Calculus
 

Speaker: Tom Banchoff (Brown University)

Course Outline: This workshop is for college and university teachers who
are interested in investigating two kinds of courseware: software for
communication between students and teachers and among students, and Java
applets for demonstrations and for student explorations. Participants
will take part in an "accelerated course", from the introduction of the
software to the students, to the generation of assignments and commenting
on student online submissions, available for all class members to see
after a time lag. They will learn how to construct their own demos and
laboratory materials, and how students can modify them and include them in
their online homeworks and take-home tests. The material of the course
will stress the analogies between calculus of two and three variables,
with parallel exercises for calculus of one variable. Illustrations
will come from (partial) differentiation, (multiple) integration, and
their interrelationships in vector analysis. No computer prior background
is assumed in this short course.

More information on a related workshop appears on the presenter's webpage
at http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff, in particular at /PREP.