Research Projects for Philip B. Yasskin 2023

MY Math Apps Calculus (MYMACalc), 2002 - Present (2023),
A list of contributors is at https://mymathapps.com/mymacalc-sample/Credits.html.

• A 3 semester online Calculus text which is fully hyperlinked, is highly interactive and emphasizes 2d and 3D graphics and animations.
• Free for TAMU and U. South Carolina students.
• TAMU faculty, staff and students may access the text at https://www.math.tamu.edu/maple/maplets/MYMACalc
• Others may access a sample of the text at MYMathApps.com/mymacalc-sample
• Grant Award:
  • TAMU Academic Innovation Grant-Fall 2018 Cohort
    for development of the MY Math Apps Calculus textbook for Calculus 3, 2 and 1.
    Sept 2018 - Aug 2019, Award Amount: $10,000
• Students Supported:
  • Luke Hoffman, former SEE-Math and Math Circle participant and SEE-Math counselor, Summer 2019.
  • Carl Van Huyck, former SEE-Math participant and SEE-Math counselor, Fall 2019.
• Students Mentored:
  • Former students: Van Huyck, Partin, Sarin, Migl, Doe, Milanowski
  • Undergraduate Students: Crenwelge, Martinsen, Weihing, Rao, DeHaven, Shung, Yang, Pochareddy, Mahato, Mohon, Johnson, Frendreiss, Schmidt, Knudsen, Atanas, Lin, Lowery, Hoffman (from U. Texas), Cahill (from U. Texas)
  • Middle & High School Students: Vincent Musser, Shiva Saravanan, Daniel Sprintson (7th), Bill Wang (11th), Bryan Yan (11th,12th), Devkumar (Krishno) Banerjee (8th), Leo Solitaire (8th)
  • Elementary School Students: Phoenix Miracle (5th), Trevor Johnson (6th), Avek Dongol (5th, 8 y.o.), Scott Whitman (5th), Jameson Parker (6th)
• Pilot Tested:
  • MYMACalc 2:
    Yasskin in Math 152/152H/172, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
    Yasskin in Math 172/172H, Spring 2021 with WebWork homework from Edfinity.com
    Dr. Michael Anshelevich in Math 172H, Fall 2020
    Dr. Erika Ordog in Math 172, Spring 2021 with WebWork homework from Edfinity.com
  • MYMACalc 3:
    asskin in Math 251/251H/253H/221/221H, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
    Dr. Rob Rham in Math 221, Spring 2020 with WebWork homework from Edfinity.com

Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Teaching and Learning Spatial Transformations in STEM Disciplines, 2021 - 2024,
Co-PI with PI: Yan, W., Co-PIs: Quek, F., Burte, H., Song, D., and Co-I: Liew, J.

• We are developing ways to use augmented reality to teach translations, rotations, reflections, dilations and other 3D spacial transformations to architechture, engineering, geoscience, computer science, science and math students. Students will hold a Lego model in their hand and a virtual model will appear on the screen tracking the motions of the physical model. As this happens, the screen will also display the matrix transformations which describe the motions.

TAMU Math Circle Apps, 2019 - Present (2023),
with Carl Van Huyck.

• A collection of interactive applets for use at online Math Circles, included in MYMathApps Calculus.
• Accessable for anyone at http://www.MYMathApps.com/mymacalc-sample/MathCircleApps/MContents.htmll

Maplets for Calculus (M4C), 2002 - 2017,
with D. Meade.

• A collection of Maple bases Applets to help Students Learn Calculus and Other Math Courses,
  Ver. 1.0, 37 maplets, released July 1, 2005.
  Ver. 1.1. 40 maplets, released Oct 30, 2005.
  Ver. 1.2, 94 maplets, released Jan 2008.
  Ver. 1.3, 129 maplets, released July 2010.
  Ver. 1.3.1, 149 maplets, limited release at TAMU and U. South Carolina Mar 2012.
  Ver. 1.4, 201 maplets, released 2016.
• Free for students at TAMU and Univ. South Carolina.
• TAMU faculty, staff and students may access the text at https://www.math.tamu.edu/maple/maplets/MYMACalc/M4C/MapletsForCalculus.html
• Others may purchase the M4C at http://www.MYMathApps.com/
  Copies sold: 1261 individual copies, 6 site licenses for 1034 students Used in 44 countries on all 6 continents.
• Used at * TAMU, * Univ of South Carolina, * Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, * Univ of Toledo, Ohio, * Tarleton State University, TX, * Blackburn High School in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia, * Univ of Arkansas, Little Rock, * Brooklyn College, CUNY, * Medgar Evers College, CUNY
• Grant Awards:
  • Collaborative Proposal: Maplets for Calculus
    NSF, Division of Undergraduate Education, Award Number 0737248,
    Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI):
    Phase 1 (Exploratory Project), June 15, 2008 - June 14, 2012, Award Amount: $73,144
    with collaborating PI: Douglas B. Meade - University of South Carolina
    Program Officer: Lee Zia, lzia@nsf.gov
    Co-Workers:
    • Debra Geddings, Dept of Math, Univ of South Carolina -- Pedagogical Evaluation
    • Don Allen (TAMU Math) and Cathy Ezrailson (TAMU Educ) -- Pedagogical Evaluation
  • Collaborative Research: Maplets for Calculus
    NSF, Division of Undergraduate Education, Award Number 1123255,
    Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES):
    Type 2 Project, Sept 1, 2011 - Aug 31, 2017, Award Amount: $194,413
    with collaborating PI: Douglas B. Meade - University of South Carolina
    Program Officer: Richard A. Alo, ralo@nsf.gov
    Co-Workers:
    • Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting -- Independent Evaluator
• Students Supported:
  • Matthew Barry, BA May 2014, Designing and maintaining Maplets for Calculus webpage. Maintaining MYMathApps.com webpage. Writing a javascript parser, MathLex, for student input on mobile devices as his Honors Senior Thesis. See http://mathlex.org Employed 2008 - 5/2014 Continues to work on the project on an unpaid basis.
  • Katherine Davis, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Converted Maple code for Maplets for Calculus lessons into Sage code for MYMathApps lessons. Employed 12/14/2011 - 03/02/2014
  • Logan Collins, BA May 2015, Converted Maplets for Calculus lessons into Sage-based MYMathApps lessons, including converting Maple code into Sage code, writing HTML5 and JavaScript webpages to replace Java applets and developing the communication between the web page on the client and the Sage server. See the demo pages at http://mymathapps.com/demos/lessons/ Employed 01/18/2012 - 05/19/2013
  • Brandon Bordovsky, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 2012 - 2013
  • David Quiroz, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 05/09/2012 - 09/18/2013
  • Travis Lamb, deceased, would have graduated May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 05/14/2012 - 12/09/2012
  • Dmitriy Shatalov, BA May 2016, Wrote maplets for differential equations and complex numbers. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 06/06/2012 - 2015
  • Nathan Parish, BA May 2015, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 12/01/2012 - 10/02/2013
  • Dawson Deere, High School diploma May 2015, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 07/08/2013 - 06/15/2014, and 1/20/16 - 2016
  • Don Van Huyck, BA May 2017, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 06/09/2014 - 2015
  • Ethan Corpus, High School diploma May 2017, Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Employed 08/11/2014 - 9/2015
  • Michael Sprintson, High School diploma May 2018, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Incorporating grading and rating features into all 201 maplets. Employed 08/13/2014 - 2017
  • Parth Sarin, High School diploma May 2018, Writing maplets for pre-calculus. Improved honors student maplets so they were up to the standards of the Maplets for Calculus and could be posted on the web. Designing web pages using HTML5 and JavaScript for rating maplets. Employed 08/18/2014 - 2017
• Honors Calculus Students wrote first drafts of 216 maplets. Many have been improved and included in the Maplets for Calculus collection. A list of contributors is at https://mymathapps.com/mymacalc-sample/Credits.html
  • Calculus 3, Fall 2002 - 11 Maplets
  • Calculus 1, Fall 2005 - 21 Maplets
  • Calculus 2, Spring 2006 - 10 Maplets
  • Calculus 3, Fall 2006 - 3 Maplets
  • Calculus 2, Fall 2007 - 16 Maplets
  • Calculus 3, Spring 2008 - 7 Maplets
  • Calculus 2 and 3, Fall 2008 - 21 Maplets
  • Calculus 3, Spring 2009 - 9 Maplets
  • Calculus 1, Fall 2011 - 27 Maplets
  • Calculus 2 Spring 2012 - 15 Maplets
  • Calculus 3 Fall 2012 - 29 Maplets
  • Calculus 1 Fall 2013 - 28 Maplets
  • Calculus 2 Spring 2014 - 2 Maplets
  • Calculus 3 Fall 2014 - 17 Maplets
• Prizes and Awards:
  • 2008 ICTCM Award presented to Drs Philip Yasskin and Douglas Meade and their program "Maplets for Calculus" for "excellence and innovation in using technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics" at the 20th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), San Antonio, TX, March 6-9, 2008

WebCalc 1 (with Don Allen, Mike Stecher), WebCalc 2 (with Grace Keiffer) and WebCalc 3, 1998 - 2015.

• Web-based, fully hyperlinked, textbooks for Calculus 1, 2 and 3
  Written and viewed only in Scientific Notebook 5.5. Eventually to be converted to HTML5 and Javascript
  This was the inspiration for MYMathApps Calculus
  
• Grant Awards:
  This project was supported by the same grants as the Maplets for Calculus project.
• Students Supported:
  • David Migl, graduated BA May 2012, Took notes in Scientific Notebook in Calculus 3 class which have become the basis for WebCalc 3. Employed 01/15/2009 - 05/15/2009
  • Frederick Doe, graduated BA May 2012, Translated parts of WebCalc 2 from Scientific Notebook to HTML5, javascript and MathJax. Employed 09/11/2009 - 09/12/2012
  • Matthew Milanowski, BA May 2015, Translated parts of WebCalc 2 and WebCalc 3 from Scientific Notebook to HTML5, javascript and MathJax. Employed 05/15/2012 - 09/29/2013
  • Andrew Crenwelge, BA May 2017, Editing and adding graphics to WebCalc 2 and WebCalc 3 in Scientific Notebook. Employed 05/12/2014 - 2017