Interactive Workshop Activities in CalcPlot3D

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In a group of 1-4 people, have one person in the group open the first exploration script and work through the steps as a group, discussing what you're doing and adressing the questions there.

We'll work through each of these short explorations in these groups to learn more about CalcPlot3D and the concepts we can explore with it.

Activities:

1. Contour Plots, Gradient Vectors, and Partial Derivatives: https://c3d.libretexts.org/CalcPlot3D/index.html?exploration=PN-Script-Activity

2. Visual verification of student solutions: Plane Through 3 Points and Line of Intersection of Two Planes: https://c3d.libretexts.org/CalcPlot3D/index.html?exploration=VisualVerifications

3. Transformations of Functions of Two Variables: https://c3d.libretexts.org/CalcPlot3D/index.html?exploration=Transformations