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Now included with the Maple 12 Calculus Bundle!
Find out What’s New in Maplets for Calculus.


Product Description:

Maplets for Calculus (M4C) is a collection of 94 Maple applets for calculus students and instructors. Using 2D and 3D graphics and animation, they provide immediate, step-by-step guidance through an endless supply of random (algorithmically-generated) or user-entered questions covering the most important topics in single-variable calculus and require only a minimal knowledge of Maple.

The Maplets for Calculus are highly pedagogical and have been designed to balance the development of understanding and technical skills. Most of the Student[Calculus1] maplets that come with Maple are calculators -- you tell the maplet something you want to visualize or compute and the maplet shows or computes the requested object. By contrast, the maplets in the M4C collection ask the student a question and the student works through intermediate steps to obtain the answer. The maplet checks intermediate results, tells the user if their answer is correct or where it is incorrect and provides hints along the way.

After winning the prestigious 2008 ICTCM Award (more), the authors, Meade and Yasskin, received a peer-reviewed grant from the National Science Foundation to continue the development of the M4C (more).

The authors also welcome any other feedback that might help to improve the Maplets for Calculus collection including suggestions for additional Maplets.


Intended Audience:

Students:
Do you think you will need a tutor to help you get through Calculus this year? For less than the cost of two sessions with a human tutor, M4C will give you on-line tutoring for an entire year. Whereas most study guides provide 2 or 3 problems on each topic, M4C provides thousands and guides you through the solution step by step. In addition, the user-entered problems will allow you to enter a specific problem from another source, such as a textbook or homework assignment. The M4C cover the most important topics from precalculus, and single variable, differential and integral calculus, including simple differential equations, sequences, series, and polar coordinates. While requesting his free upgrade, Eric Jorgensen, a student at Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, commented, "Love it. Very useful in getting skill level up". Matthew Williams, a Clemson engineering student, concluded, "Maplets for Calculus made calculus a lot more fun than I thought it could be."

Instructors:
The M4C will build your students' intuition and also provide excellent lecture demonstrations. In a lab setting, the algorithmically generated questions allow each student to work on a different problem and use their findings to motivate a general result. In lecture, instructors can enter a problem to illustrate a specific concept. Amy Austin, an instructor at Texas A&M, said, "When the students go through the Limits and Continuity Maplets before class, it makes it much easier to cover these difficult topics in class because the students already have an intuitive understanding," and "I use the Volumes of Revolution and Volumes by Slicing Maplets as lecture demonstrations because the 3D animations are far superior to anything I could ever draw on a blackboard."


Maplets for Calculus

Try a Maplet for yourself using MapleNet:

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Limits and Continuity Maplet
Volumes by Slicing Maplet

Watch a Maplet for Calculus Demo Video:

Limits and Continuity Video
Volumes by Slicing Video



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