LaunchPad for Calculus (12 Month Access Card)
Published on 30. March 2015
Software
Product license key
978-1-4641-8166-5 (ISBN)
Description
Taalman and Kohn's Calculus offers a streamlined, structured exposition of calculus that combines the clarity of classic textbooks with a modern perspective on concepts, skills, applications, and theory. Its sleek, uncluttered design eliminates sidebars, historical biographies, and asides to keep students focused on what's most important-the foundational concepts of calculus that are so important to their future academic and professional careers.
The pack comes with LaunchPad, an interactive online resource that helps students achieve better results. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve, our adaptive quizzing resource, to engage your students and develop their understanding. Features include:
LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing provides an effective way to get students involved in the coursework. It offers:
The pack comes with LaunchPad, an interactive online resource that helps students achieve better results. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve, our adaptive quizzing resource, to engage your students and develop their understanding. Features include:
- Pre-built Units for each chapter, curated by experienced educators, with media for that chapter organized and ready to assign or customize to suit your course.
- All online resources for the text in one location, including an interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing (see below), interactive applets, Dynamic Figures with manipulable variables, CalcClips whiteboard videos, and more.
- Powerful Online Homework Options, with algorithmically generated exercises including, precalculus quizzes, and more.
- Helpful analytics, with a Gradebook that lets you see how your class is doing individually and as a whole.
- A streamlined and intuitive interface that lets you build an entire course in minutes.
LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing provides an effective way to get students involved in the coursework. It offers:
- A unique learning path for each student, with quizzes shaped by each individual's correct and incorrect answers.
- A Personalised Study Plan, to guide students' preparation for class and for exams.
- Feedback for each question with live links to relevant e-book pages, guiding students to the reading they need to do to improve their areas of weakness.
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Persons
Laura Taalman is Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University, USA. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and master's and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Duke University. Her research includes singular algebraic geometry, knot theory, and the mathematics of games and puzzles. She is a recipient of both the Alder Award and the Trevor Evans award from the Mathematical Society of America, and the author of five books on Sudoku and the mathematics of Sudoku.
Peter Kohn is Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University, USA. He received his undergraduate degree from Antioch College, a master's degree from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. His main areas of research are low-dimensional topology and knot theory
Content
PART 1: Differential Calculus.- 0. Functions and Precalculus.- 1. Limits.- 2. Derivatives.- 3. Applications of the Derivative.- PART 2: Integral Calculus.- 4. Definite Integrals.- 5. Techniques of Integration.- 6. Applications of Integration.- PART 3: Sequence and Series.- 7. Sequences and Series.- 8. Power Series.- PART 4: Vector Calculus.- 9. Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Conic Sections.- 10. Vectors.- 11. Vector Functions.- PART 5: Multivariable Calculus.- 12. Multivariable Functions.- 13. Double and Triple Integrals.- 14. Vector Analysis