Continuous Reflection

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

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A function defined by an integral

My daughter shared a lovely problem she had encountered in her calculus class: I was inspired to make a Desmos animation: FTC (Evaluation part)


Deriving the Quotient Rule

A self-paced PowerPoint show on deriving the Quotient Rule


Determining limits from a graph


Hooray! I can embed a GeoGebra applet!

Starting with a tweet yesterday from John Golden (@mathhombre) How to Insert an iFrame into a WordPress Post bit.ly/OUZn3q for @geogebra, ggl docs, etc. #edtech HT @mike_geogebra — John Golden (@mathhombre) August 13, 2012 I followed a trail which (thanks to a comment from Pete Read more…


Integrating \(f(x)=x^n\)

My first experiment with the Wolfram CDF Plugin for WordPress: \(f(x)=x^n\) [WolframCDF source=”https://www.continuousreflection.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Integral.cdf” CDFwidth=”350″ CDFheight=”200″ altimage=”file”] . . . and some good help for to get started with Mathematica: First 10 minutes with Mathematica Hands-on Start to Mathematica


Births and Deaths in Canada

The data for this graph comes from Table 053-0001 at Statistics Canada. The graph was produced with GeoGebra.