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Below are some Maple worksheets I have written. I have tried to give appropriate credit where due when I have modified someone else's worksheet to suit my own needs. Currently, the vast majority of the worksheets I have posted are most appropriate for Math112. Regardless, you may find them useful for learning how to write animations. All of the worksheets were generated by Maple 9.5.
Right-click to download. (They're xml format so your browser might think it understands them. It doesn't.)

• Taylor series Animations of Taylor polynomials.
• Taylor polynomial error Error bounds for Taylor polynomials.
• Vectors Gives examples of how to work with vectors in Maple. Also has animations illustrating the projection of one vector onto another and illustrating the cross product of two vectors.
• Gradient Plots Shows various gradient and level curve plots. Even has one for a function of three variables at the bottom.
• Partial derivatives This animation is designed to help give an intuitive idea of what a partial derivative is.
• Parametric Lines Has animations showing the parametric description of lines in 2-D and 3-D both using vectors and not using vectors.
• Directional derivatives This animation is designed to help give an intuitive understanding of direction derivatives.
• Partial sums of series This worksheet shows how partial sums of series behave as you include more and more terms. The worksheet also shows some of the ways Maple can be used to compute with series.
• Multivariable continuity This worksheet illustrates the process of taking a limit of a function along a given curve and what that means. It also tries to give a sense of why the differentiability definition we use is a good one. It is a memory hog.
• Card overhang Illustrates the stacking of cards using the Harmonic numbers to achieve a maximal overhang.
• Multivariable Taylor polynomials Has animations showing how multivariable Taylor polynomials work.
• Plots of partial derivatives This worksheet is intended to help with visualizing how the graphs of partial derivatives relate to the graph of the original function.
• Tangent planes and wind chill This worksheet uses the wind chill functions as an excuse to look at tangent planes. It also has an example further down of a more complicated function that is suitable for zooming in on. Not very well documented.