SOME PAST WORKSHOPS, MATH 151

These examples of old workshops are here for the benefit of any curious students or faculty. Typically no more than four problems are presented to students. The ideal problem is somewhat open-ended and may be difficult to understand, just like a "real" problem!

As you read the problems remember that students work on them in groups, with textbook and graphing calculator available and with the instructors circulating to provide suggestions for exploration and discussion. Students then individually write up solutions of at least one problem each week.

The workshops are provided in two viewable formats: GIF format (which most viewers can handle) or PS format (which is of higher quality but may not be viewable for you, depending on your system). Click on either GIF or PS to view the workshop you want.

In addition, the TeX source files for the workshops are provided: click on TEX to download them. Some of the TeX sources also require one or more graphics files; click on PIC, PIC1, etc. to download these, so that the .tex files will TeX correctly.

Samples from 1995:

• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 1: Polynomials, rational functions, graphs, simple inequalities: "pre"-calculus. PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 2: Limits, tangents PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 3: Continuity, Intermediate Value Theorem, definition of limits, rates of growth
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 4: Derivatives, continuity, differentiability PIC1 || PIC2
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 5: Tangents, derivatives
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 6: Derivatives: the chain rule, simple uses of derivatives PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 7: Newton's method, the exponential function in various guises PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 8: Inverse functions, linear approximation, more exponential function problems
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 9: Inverse functions, l'Hopital's rule
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 10: Monotonicity, concavity, the Mean Value Theorem PIC1 || PIC2
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 11: Curve sketching, max and min PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 12: More max and min
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 13: Riemann sums for the definite integral; antiderivatives

Samples from 1997:

• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 1 PIC
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 2
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 3
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 4
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 5
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 7
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 8
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 9
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 10
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 12
• GIF || PS || TEX Workshop 13