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Achilles, Turtle, and the Geometric Series

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This is a short video that discusses the paradox of Zeno. It turns out that this paradox is not a paradox but rather an easy way to show that a geometric series converges (if |q| < 1) and to find a formula for the sum. Suitable for high schools.

English version in YouTube:

Cálculo con soporte interactivo en Moodle (Calculus with interactive support over Moodle)

Calculus course developed in a dual way, both in paper and as a Moodle course.

Maths for More has worked on the technical development of this course of Pearson Education.

Calculus Podcasts

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This is a series of calculus podcasts in English based on the materials of the Single Variable Calculus Lecture Notes by M. Seppälä.

Convergence of a Special Geometric Series

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This video explains why the geometric series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... converges using an elementary argument. The video is meant to be preparatory materials for students to view before the discussion of geometric series takes place in a class room. The video finishes with an intriguing example.

Courses in Descriptive Statistics

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A collection of public courses created on the basis of modules from the learning environment emilea-stat. The topics include, for instance, descriptive statistics (e.g., interactive visualizations of data, measures of location, dispersion and dependence, or elementary regression analysis) and related topics for teaching in secondary schools (like the stem-leaf plot and the Simpson paradox). All courses are in German.

Diagnostic Testing at University of Helsinki

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The resource is the complete diagnostic testbank used for testing students entering the first calculus course at the University of Helsinki. This diagnostic test covers a large part of the normal high school curriculum in Finland. The test was originally written by Andre Heck and later slightly edited by Mika Seppälä. Actual diagnostic tests used contain a part of these questions, not all of them.

How round is your circle?

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How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. This website contains interactive materials to support the book How Round Is Your Circle?, by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin. This book invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day. It also illustrates how physical models are created from abstract mathematical ones.

Inverted Polynomial Division and Taylor Polynomials

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Polynomial Division can be used to find Taylor polynomials of rational functions easily and quickly. The polynomial division that does this trick is inverted in the sense that, instead of canceling out the leading terms at each step, one cancels out the trailing terms. Otherwise everything goes just like in the ordinary long division of polynomials.

Lectures on the History of Mathematics

A general history of mathematics

Online Single Variable Calculus

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The Online Single Variable Calculus is a full course at university level covering topics from Real Numbers, Functions, Differentiation, Integration, Series and Differential Equations. Each topic is organized in a module consisting of a Ten Minute Talk accompanied by Open Problems and Solved Problems. The material has been designed especially for online delivery.