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Bottles and Divers
(Rates of Change)
High School Math Project

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Resources

  • Coxford, Art, James Fey, Christian Hirsch, and Harold Schoen, Contemporary Mathematics in Context, Course 4. Chicago, IL: Everyday Learning Corporation, 1998.

  • Everyday Learning Corporation, Two Prudential Plaza, Suite 1175, Chicago, IL 60601, 1-800-382-7670.

  • Cybercalc Index
    http://www.npac.syr.edu:80/REU/reu94/williams/calc-index.html. CyberCalc, an interactive learning environment for calculus, contains three chapters—Review of Topics Needed for Calculus, Limits and Continuity, and The Derivative.

  • Math Forum -- Calculus Reform
    http://mathforum.org/mathed/calculus.reform.html. This location is a source of information on calculus reform—issues, projects, conferences, workshops, and a bibliography.

  • Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
    http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html. This site contains bibliographies of many mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Newton and Leibnitz. It also has an account of the controversy between Newton and Leibnitz over the invention of calculus.

  • Everyday Learning Corporation
    http://www.everydaylearning.com. Everyday Learning Corporation publishes Contemporary Mathematics in Context. You can request catalogs or send email to the company from this site.

  • Core Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP)
    http://www.wmich.edu/cpmp/. Information about the Core Plus Mathematics Project is available at this site. Sample lessons are available as well as an overview of the project.