This course is designed to be used as part one of a three-part calculus sequence:
- Calculus 1 covers functions, limits, derivatives, and integration.
- Calculus 2 covers integration, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric equations and polar coordinates.
- Calculus 3 covers parametric equations and polar coordinates, vectors, functions of several variables, multiple integration, and second-order differential equations.
- Zachary Beamer, Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Ryan Melton, Kilgore College
- Matthew Simmons, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Kaiwen Amrein, Portland Community College
- Weam Al-Tameemi, Texas State University at San Marcos
- William McNeary, Contributor
- Russ Penner, Contributor
- William Lindsey, Contributor
- Brad Moss, Contributor
- Lauren Brubaker, Contributor
- Daniel Breuer, Contributor
- … as well as the eyes and feedback of many other faculty and institutions
The primary text for this course is Calculus Volume 3 from OpenStax. Lumen has curated, designed, and built additional resources to enhance both the teaching and learning experience. Each module begins with a prerequisite material review section, in which critical concepts from Precalculus, College Algebra, Calculus I, and Calculus II are revisited. Additionally, just-in-time review of essential math concepts appear throughout the text to help those students who need further learning support. The course includes embedded algorithmically generated practice questions, worked-example videos, and a complete set of outcome-aligned online assessments in OHM. For even more practice opportunities, there are problem sets for each section and an activity for each module. Keeping student engagement in mind, we have created a full suite of exciting assignments: discussion prompts, Desmos interactives, application-based assignments (economics, computer science, biology, physics, and engineering), flipped classroom options, and a capstone project. Faculty can adapt and use these materials in a variety of ways depending on their class structure. All content is constructed around the goal of helping students master the learning outcomes for this course.
Contributing Faculty and Authors include:
About Lumen
Lumen Learning’s mission is to make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.
We do this by using open educational resources (OER) to create well-designed and low-cost course materials that replace expensive textbooks. Because learning is about more than affordability and access, we also apply learning science insights and efficacy research to develop learning activities that are engineered to improve subject mastery, course completion and retention.
If you’d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please Contact Us.
You can also make an appointment for OER Office Hours to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.
