As much as Luke Skywalker loved his time in math he had always known something was wrong... His math abilities grew and grew, but he always felt that the methods of teaching were a constraint on his ability to really understand the mathematics being taught. When he had grown old enough he finally met Obiwan Kenobee who told him that he was meant to be a math master and that the slight force he had always felt would eventually become one with him and he would understand all. Obiwan explained to him that all of this would begin with the destruction of the old math empire... In the next year Luke created a calculus program on computer and began slowly defeating the dark side of math that had always haunted him. As time went on he transfered all the mathematics the rest of the world could comprehend on to a computer and defeated the empire of long boring lectures and unnecessary computation. The force prevailed and true mathematics finally came through.
When I originally signed up to take C&M BioCalc for my freshman calculus course, my older brother tried to talk me out of it. He told me that I wouldn't learn anything, and that I would have trouble later on in my engineering classes. Out of stubbornness, I stuck with it. This past year, my brother came to me to ask my help. One of his mechanical engineering classes was filled with Calculus III material and he was having trouble. After I helped him, he said to me, "I wish I had taken a C&M course. I probably still would have forgotten all of the formulas, but at least I would know how to go about getting the answer."
Techs support both the lab machines and the software used in this program.
In the event of a problem, send an e-mail to tech@cm.math.uiuc.edu.