CMovie
by Dan Kalman

This Mathwright Web activity uses animation to show students how a family of curves varies with a parameter.  It is intended to supplement a unit on integration by slicing.

There are two activity pages.  This description is incomplete, and will be expanded later.

A handout providing laboratory instructions for each screen is available as either a MS word document or in PDF format.     Get MS word version.       View PDF version.

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