Fun with Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg76745] Fun with Manipulate
- From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 04:49:26 -0400 (EDT)
So I'm retooling some calculus lab assignments for use with Mathematica 6. And I just *love* Manipulate. For example, have a look at http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/mathstat/mathematica/math21/math21X_lab4_zzzz.nb In the old version of this lab, which is assigned before we have talked (much) about derivatives in class, I had the students make a plot on some relatively large interval, then "zoom in" by changing the domain of the plot manually and re-executing, until eventually they had something that looked linear. But now with 6.0, this is just way more fun. Hopefully this will make them go "Cool!" :-) [Don't be put off by the wonky filename, BTW. The students are supposed to change the "X" to the section of the class that they are in, and the "zzzz" to their username when they download the file, for ease of sorting the submitted files on the instructor's computer. (It's completely paperless, at least in my classes. My students e-mail me their notebooks, I insert GraderText -- a custom style in the embedded stylesheet -- and mail the files back.)] I'm not actually teaching right now, but am very much looking forward to using Mathematica 6 with my summer class later in the summer. -- Helen Read University of Vermont
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