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Resources for multivariable calculus: Some challenge problems (not multivariable): https:\/\/www.math.unl.edu\/~mrammaha1\/Challenging%20problems\/Challenge-Problems.pdf Cornell is using workshops activities for their engineering students this year (2017): http:\/\/www.math.cornell.edu\/~web1920\/workshop.html Materials from Math 53 at Berkeley (2016): https:\/\/math.berkeley.edu\/~auroux\/53s16\/ Lots of past multivariable exams for Math 215 at Michigan: http:\/\/www.math.lsa.umich.edu\/courses\/215\/17exampractice\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1010,157885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-multivariable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7E5LF-13","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/siams\/2017\/08\/25\/reading-student-learning-objectives-and-mathematics-teaching\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":0},"title":"Reading “Student learning objectives and mathematics teaching”","author":"siams","date":"25 August 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I am working to write learning objectives for multivariable calculus this Fall. 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