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Are You Trying To Learn Calculus In A Lecture Hall? Are You Bored? Frustrated? Can't Fit Calculus Into Your Work/Class/Life Schedule? Need to Try Calculus a Different Way?
The Usual: Calculus in a Lecture Hall a big classroom, sometimes with hundreds of other students classtime that may not fit into your work or course schedule writing down notes like a stenographer noisy lecture halls make it difficult to concentrate long, boring homework assignments deadlines that, once missed, are not recoverable rarely meet with the professor, often only with a T.A. cramming for a big scary final exam at the end of term can't see the board ending up with a useless textbook		The Alternative: Distance Calculus! Interesting and engaging reform-based e-curriculum Learn by Doing, Not by Watching Majority of assignments completed via computer algebra and graphing programs Intensive communication with professor and teaching assistants Mastery-learning approach provides flexible time management: as slow as needed for success, or fast as your skills warrant Start the course when you want - mid-term, off-term. Finish the course when you finish it - mid-term, after-term, summer, winter vacation Work on your Calculus course on your schedule: morning, afternoons, evenings, weekends Learn Calculus and software/technology skills that will stay with you long after the course finishes Need a Calculus Refresher? Distance Calculus means you go as fast as your skills warrant, or as slow as you need to go to succeed

Distance Calculus FAQ (See the Entire FAQ Here) Courses Start At Any Time Distance Calculus does not follow the traditional academic calendar, so you may enroll today - or next week, or next month - and start your course. Finish the Course Quickly, If Needed You may accelerate your pace and completion of the course - provided your skills warrant such progress. Your instructor will set your pace for you, and if you need to complete your course by a certain deadline, we will work with you to establish a pace that should be sufficient to meet your deadline. We cannot, of course, guarantee that you will finish your Distance Calculus bt a certain date, as the ability to complete the course is dependent upon your academic skills. Each course is designed for a standard 14-week semester, with an expected student workload of 9-12 hours per week. Some students have been able to finish such courses in 4-6 weeks (and not doing much other than Calculus during this period!) Take 1 Course, Or Take Many - As You Prefer You may take only 1 course from Distance Calculus - or you may take many, or even take the entire Calculus sequence. It is up to you. Many students will take, for example, Calculus II from Distance Calculus, where they took Calculus I at their primary college/university, and then take Calculus III at their primary college/university. You do not need to take all of your Calculus courses through Distance Calculus. But, of course, you may if you wish.

The Story of Distance Calculus Once upon a time two cool math professors at the University of Illinois and another cool math professor at the Ohio State University wrote a new type of electronic math textbook that was based upon student experimentation using computer algebra and graphing software, as opposed to the traditional "read the text and do the homework problems on paper." Big computer labs were set up at both Universities for the students to "go through Calculus" using these new technologies and curricula. One day a visitor said, "Hey, there is no reason these students have to be in THIS room. They could be anywhere." This led to the first distance calculus courses at University of Illinois and The Ohio State University. From this start, a variety of similar calculus-in-distance courses have migrated around the country. The Distance Calculus program at Suffolk University was founded in 1997 with one of the instructors from The Ohio State University program. Distance Calculus at Suffolk University uses a combination of the original e-curriculum, Calculus&Mathematica, also now ported to the graphically-based computer algebra and graphing system LiveMath, as well as new and emerging curriculum using a variety of media, including QuickTime/RealPlayer movies, Instant Messenger/Chat communication tools, and lots and lots and lots of communications between student, teaching assistants, and professors. Distance Calculus at Suffolk University is led by Dr. Robert Curtis, a member of the faculty of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Suffolk University since 1996. Distance Calculus is operated by a team of educators through MathMonkeys, LLC, publishers of LiveMath and MathEQ software, based in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The Distance Calculus courses are based upon communication. There are no formal lectures; the replacement is an amount of communication between student, teaching assistant, and professor that you may not be used to. A typical "session" between the student and the professor might include 10-20 Instant Messages back and forth, a single LiveMath notebooks passed back and forth 3 or 4 times, 2 or 3 emails following up a discussion; a particular notebook homework assignment might be turned in for grading 2, 3, 4, or more times in a "recursive homework" paradigm. The course is based upon the Mastery Learning pedagological model, so the student achieves a 100% understanding level before moving on to the next topic. A student may be working on 2 or 3 or 4 notebooks at the same time. As you can tell, this is a much different experience from what you would have in a traditional calculus lecture classroom where you would be taking notes, maybe asking a question during class, and going home to do the assigned textbook exercises. Please investigate the related pages on this website to discover if Distance Calculus is for you. For some students, Distance Calculus is totally cool and an amazing experience. For other students, a traditional calculus course is better suited to their needs and academic practices. If you have any questions about Distance Calculus, including questions about how these courses will transfer to your specific institution, please contact us at your convenience. We are here ready and happy to help you find an improved and successful calculus experience!