Current Research Projects for Philip B. Yasskin
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A collection of Maple bases Applets to help Students Learn Calculus and Other Math Courses,
Ver. 1.0, 37 maplets, released July 1, 2005.
Ver. 1.1. 40 maplets, released Oct 30, 2005.
Ver. 1.2, 94 maplets, released Jan 2008.
Ver. 1.3, 129 maplets, released July 2010.
Ver. 1.3.1, 149 maplets, limited release at TAMU and U. South Carolina Mar 2012.
Ver. 1.4, 201 maplets, in preparation 2016.
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Free for TAMU and U. South Carolina students. For sale at
MYMathApps.com
Copies sold: 1261 individual copies, 6 site licenses for 1034 students
Used in 44 countries on all 6 continents.
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Used at * TAMU, * Univ of South Carolina, * Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, * Univ of Toledo, Ohio, * Tarleton State University, TX, * Blackburn High School in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia, * Univ of Arkansas, Little Rock, * Brooklyn College, CUNY, * Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- Grant Awards:
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Collaborative Proposal: Maplets for Calculus
NSF, Division of Undergraduate Education, Award Number 0737248,
Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI):
Phase 1 (Exploratory Project), June 15, 2008 - June 14, 2012, Award Amount: $73,144
with collaborating PI: Douglas B. Meade - University of South Carolina
Program Officer: Lee Zia, lzia@nsf.gov
Co-Workers:
- Debra Geddings, Dept of Math, Univ of South Carolina -- Pedagogical Evaluation
- Don Allen (TAMU Math) and Cathy Ezrailson (TAMU Educ) -- Pedagogical Evaluation
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Collaborative Research: Maplets for Calculus
NSF, Division of Undergraduate Education, Award Number 1123255,
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES):
Type 2 Project, Sept 1, 2011 - Aug 31, 2016, Award Amount: $194,413
with collaborating PI: Douglas B. Meade - University of South Carolina
Program Officer: Richard A. Alo, ralo@nsf.gov
Co-Workers:
- Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting -- Independent Evaluator
- Students Supported:
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Matthew Barry, BA May 2014, Designing and maintaining Maplets for Calculus webpage. Maintaining MYMathApps.com webpage. Writing a javascript parser, MathLex, for student input on mobile devices as his Honors Senior Thesis. See http://mathlex.org Employed 2008 - 5/2014 Continues to work on the project on an unpaid basis.
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Katherine Davis, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Converted Maple code for Maplets for Calculus lessons into Sage code for MYMathApps lessons. Employed 12/14/2011 - 03/02/2014
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Logan Collins, BA May 2015, Converted Maplets for Calculus lessons into Sage-based MYMathApps lessons, including converting Maple code into Sage code, writing HTML5 and JavaScript webpages to replace Java applets and developing the communication between the web page on the client and the Sage server. See the demo pages at http://mymathapps.com/demos/lessons/ Employed 01/18/2012 - 05/19/2013
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Brandon Bordovsky, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 2012 - 2013
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David Quiroz, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 05/09/2012 - 09/18/2013
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Travis Lamb, deceased, would have graduated May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 05/14/2012 - 12/09/2012
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Dmitriy Shatalov, BA May 2016, Wrote maplets for differential equations and complex numbers. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 06/06/2012 - present 2015
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Nathan Parish, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 12/01/2012 - 10/02/2013
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Dawson Deere, High School diploma May 2015, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 07/08/2013 - 06/15/2014, Re-employed 1/20/16 - present 2016
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Don Van Huyck, BA May 2017, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 06/09/2014 - present 2015
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Ethan Corpus, High School diploma May 2017, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 08/11/2014 - 9/2015
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Michael Sprintson, High School diploma May 2018, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 08/13/2014 - present 2015
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Parth Sarin, High School diploma May 2018, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Designing web pages using HTML5 and JavaScript for rating maplets. Employed 08/18/2014 - present 2015
- Honors Calculus Students wrote first drafts of 216 maplets. Many have been improved and included in the Maplets for Calculus collection.
- Prizes and Awards:
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2008 ICTCM Award presented to Drs Philip Yasskin and Douglas Meade and their program "Maplets for Calculus" for "excellence and innovation in using technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics" at the 20th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), San Antonio, TX, March 6-9, 2008
WebCalc 2 and WebCalc 3, 1999 - Present (2015).
- Web-based, fully hyperlinked, textbooks for Calculus 2 and Calculus 3
Currently written and viewed in Scientific Notebook 5.5.
- WebCalc 2 is at /~yasskin/webcalc/2/mcontents.tex
- WebCalc 3 is at /~yasskin/webcalc/3/mcontents.tex
Eventually to be converted to HTML5 and Javascript
Maplets from Maplets for Calculus are directly accessable from the WebCalc pages.
- TAMU Co-Workers:
- Don Allen, Mike Stecher and I wrote WebCalc 1
- I am writing WebCalc 2 and 3 independently with the same style as WebCalc 1.
- Grace Keiffer wrote one section and many exercises for WebCalc 2.
- Grant Awards:
This project is supported by the same grants as the Maplets for Calculus project.
- Students Supported:
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David Migl, graduated BA May 2012, Took notes in Scientific Notebook in Calculus 3 class which have become the basis for WebCalc 3. Employed 01/15/2009 - 05/15/2009
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Frederick Doe, graduated BA May 2012, Translated parts of WebCalc 2 from Scientific Notebook to HTML5, javascript and MathJax. Employed 09/11/2009 - 09/12/2012
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Matthew Milanowski, BA May 2015, Translated parts of WebCalc 2 and WebCalc 3 from Scientific Notebook to HTML5, javascript and MathJax. Employed 05/15/2012 - 09/29/2013
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Andrew Crenwelge, BA May 2017, Editing and adding graphics to WebCalc 2 and WebCalc 3 in Scientific Notebook. Employed 05/12/2014 - present 2015
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Last updated Feb 1 2016.