MATH 211 Resources on the WEB

COURSE: MATH 211, Calculus for Business and Social Science (3). An elementary treatment of topics from differential and integral calculus, with applications in social science and business.

TEXT: Calculus and its Applications, 7th Edition, by Bittinger (2000)

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The course will introduce the central ideas of calculus: the instantaneous rate of growth of a function, and the average value of a function over an interval. The course will show how these concepts can be applied to solve problems in a variety of areas, including business, economics, biology, and sociology. The course will include problems on exponential growth and decay.

CALCULUS on the WEB:

From the publisher: the book's student page

There are long lists of Calculus-related sites at these locations:

Math Forum, at Swarthmore College

Calculus Resources On-line, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

These sites have good tutorials on various topics:

Calculus Tutorials, at Hofstra University

S.O.S. MATHematics, at the University of Texas at El Paso

This site has useful comments on how to study for a math course:

Understanding Mathematics: a study guide, from the University of Utah

At this site you can do computer graphics on-line, based on Mathematica:

The MathServ Calculus Toolkit, from Vanderbilt University

Here is another site with on-line graphing:

Gnuplot

Math Department homepage