EarthCalculus
EarthCalculus
Resources and Worksheets for Adventurous Instructors
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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- About
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Introduction
- Approaching calculus through an earth-lens
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Precalculus worksheets
- Lines: A linear beginning
- Composition of functions: group work and a power function for atmospheric pressure
- Trigonometric functions: lynx!
- Reading graphs: nitrates in the Raccoon River
- Limits and continuity: drugs in our waterways
- Inverse functions: revisiting the mountains
- Volume and area: White Bear Lake
- Increasing and decreasing: nitrates in the Raccoon River
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Using short projects
- Incorporating short projects
- Spreadsheets in the calculus classroom: Point Reyes tidal data
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Differentiation
- Rate of change: aquifers and groundwater
- Rate of change: White Bear Lake surface level
- Rates of rates of change: atmospheric pressure in mountains
- Graphing: the mathematical stories
- The chain rule: a better model for lynx populations
- Inverses and derivatives: more altitude problems
- Derivatives mix: drugs in our waterways
- Optimization: give me some optimal sugar!
- Related rates: compost oh compost
- Derivation of equation for atmospheric pressure
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Integration and differential equations
- Numerical integration: drinking drugs in Denver
- Differential equations: our leaky atmosphere
- Sea ice: a very baby model
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Further resources
- Other calc resources
- Copyright?
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