Project Based Math 112, Fall 2001, Activities
In-Class Activities
Project Based Math 112, Fall 2001
Instructions for Activities
[TeX] -- students should read this handout
immediately prior to the first several in-class group activities, for
helpful suggestions on how to organize themselves to accomplish their
task in the alotted time.
--adapted from Harel
Barzilai's
"Some Suggestions on Working in Groups".
Unless otherwise noted, activities are borrowed/adapted from the
Stewart Instructor's Gude.
Day 1: Will Pres. Rawlings hit the deer?
[TeX]
Stewart 5.1/5.2: Sigma Detectives
[TeX] (adapted from Harel Barzilai's version of an
activity from Cooperative Learning in Mathematics: a handbook for
teachers, ed. by Neil Davidson.)
Stewart 5.2: Barehands Integration
[TeX](112
sections 2 and 7)
Stewart 5.2: Barehands Integration
[TeX](112 section 8)
[Stewart 5.3: Clearing the Hill, from Stewart
Instructors Guide -- we skipped this activity]
Stewart 5.4: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
(from Stewart Instructors Guide)
Stewart 5.5: Unexpected Equality
(from Stewart Instructors Guide) (sections 2 and 7 only)
[Stewart 5.5: Loki's Dilemma [TeX] -- we skipped this activity]
Stewart 6.2: Making Bagels
[TeX] (sections 2 and 8)
Stewart 5.6: Integration by Parts
[TeX]
[Stewart 5.7: Partial Fractions
[TeX] --we skipped this activity]
[Stewart 5.7: Making Bagels Revisited
[TeX] --we skipped this
activity]
Stewart 5.9: Comparison of Methods
[TeX]
Stewart 5.9: Using Error Bounds
[TeX]
Induction: Sigma Detectives Revisited
[TeX](Sections 2 and 7 only)
Stewart 6.4: Average Value
[TeX]
Stewart 8.1: Introduction to
Infinite Sequences[TeX]
(adapted from an activity by Harel
Barzilai)
Stewart 8.1: How do your
favorite sequences stack up?[TeX]
(adapted from an activity by Harel
Barzilai)
Stewart 8.2: Series, Integrals, and Hidden
Patterns (PS) [Tex](Sections 2 and
?7) (adapted from Harel
Barzilai's version of an activity in Calculus: An Active approach
with Projects (pub. by MAA, 1991)
Stewart Chp. 8: Exploring/Creating
Infinite Series(from Stewart Instructors Guide)
Answers to
Exploring I.S. activity [TeX]
Stewart 8.5: Intervals of
Convergence[TeX]
All of the Chp. 7 activities below can be found in the Stewart
Instructors Guide
Stewart 7.1: A Qualitative Look at Differential Equations:
1
2
Stewart 7.2: Direction Fields:
1
2
Stewart 7.2: Euler with Care:
1
2
3
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