Jump Start Grant

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Funding Agency: Center for Instructional Technology
PI: Clark B Bray
Additional Researchers: Allyson Johnson, Barry Wright
Effective Dates: 2006/07-2007/04
Amount: $2,500

Description: This grant pertains to a part of larger project, namely, the development of a multivariable calculus textbook for engineers and scientists.  This text will emphasize as many as possible of the important conceptual ideas in most higher level books while still leaving out the abstractions and rigor usually excluded from books aimed at the same audience. 

As this larger project proceeds, the first written chapter will be used as a supplemental text for a new course in the Mathematics Department called Math 102, a course in multivariable calculus designed around the Economics major.  Part of this project includes the creation of homework exercises and solutions.  The technical requirements of this work is such that much of it can be done by undergraduates. 

This grant provides funding that has employed talented undergraduate majors from the Mathematics Department to work on the creation of these exercises and solutions.


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