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In this talk I will provide a quick tour through some of the different ways in which I have used Maple to improve student understanding of traditional topics in an introductory differential equations course, such as direction fields, the phenomenon of beats, and developing an understanding of solutions to first-order systems in phase space.
Supported in part by NSF DUE grants 0737209 and 1123170, Michael Monagan, Maplesoft, and the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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Meade, D.B. (2020). How Maple Has Improved Student Understanding in Differential Equations. In: Gerhard, J., Kotsireas, I. (eds) Maple in Mathematics Education and Research. MC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1125. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41258-6_31
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