This repository is for an attempt to convert a book for business calculus into Mathbook XML. The book assumes that students will be using laptops connected to the internet and have Excel available.
The heritage of the project runs through the text Networked Business Calculus from Appalachia State University. that project embodied a number of recommendations of the CRAFTY reports of the MAA.
My project was inspired by the idea that, for business students, the primary computational engine should be a spreadsheet rather than a graphing calculator. With a change in technology there are pervasive but subtle changes in content. (Numerical methods are much more reasonable with a spreadsheet.) There also were adjustments based on surveys of business faculty and what they wanted in the course.
Conditions of Use
This book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA). You can download the ebook Business Calculus with Excel for free.
- Title
- Business Calculus with Excel
- Author(s)
- Anneke Bart, Mike May
- Published
- 2024-01-03
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 412
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
Acknowledgements Preface Notes for Instructors Notes for Students Functions Graphs and Excel Linear Functions and models Functions in the Business setting Introduction to Excel Spreadsheets Graphing functions with Excel Using Excel to find best-fit curves Finding Numerical Solutions with Goal Seek Business Applications Market Equilibrium Problems Modeling Revenue, Costs, and Profit Nonlinear Functions Rate of Change and Derivatives Marginal Functions and Difference Quotients Numeric Derivatives and Limits Local Linearity Optimization An Introduction to Solver Symbolic Differentiation Elementary Derivatives Derivative Rules for Combinations of Functions The Chain Rule Differentiation Using Computer Algebra The Second Derivative and Concavity Differentiation Techniques and Applications Implicit Differentiation Related Rates Elasticity Functions of Several Variables Evaluating and Graphing Functions of Several Variables Wire Frames, Partial Derivatives, and Tangent Planes Critical Points and Extrema Optimization and Best Fitting Curves Integration Approximating Definite Integrals as Sums The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Basic Antidifferentiation Integration by Change of Variables or Substitution Integration using Computer Algebra The Normal Distribution: An extended numeric example Applications of the integral: Investment and depreciation Economics Applications of the Integral Appendices Spreadsheet Skills introduced in chapter From Section 1-3 - Entering and Copying Formulas From Section 1.4 Graphing Functions in a Spreadsheet From Section 1.5 Adding and Using Best Fit Curves (Trendlines) From Section 1.6 Using Goal Seek Google Sheets Notes for Chapter 1 skills Spreadsheet Skills Introduced in Chapter Spreadsheet Skills introduced in chapter From Section 3.1- Comparing Functions and Related Marginal Functions From Section 3.2- Comparing Functions and Numeric Derivatives From Section 3.3- Building Linear Approximations From Section 3.5 - An introduction to Solver ?? Google Sheets Notes for Chapter 3 Skills Spreadsheet Skills introduced in chapter From Section 6.1 - Evaluating and graphing functions of several varaibles From Section 6.3 - Critical points and extrema Google Sheets Notes for Chapter 6 Skills Spreadsheet Skills introduced in chapter
