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Mathcad and the Three Bears
My four-year-old daughter Mia is a big fan of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We read it a lot, so much so that we have developed a game of making variations to the story: Goldilocks and the Three Chairs, Goldilocks and the Three Fairs, etc. Today I want to play our little game with the readers of the …
A Brief Lesson in Numerical Equality with Mathcad
After twenty-two years of mathematics teaching, the urge to explore and explain mathematical concepts has become a force of habit. Recently, I was exploring Mathcad’s equality symbols and I came up with an idea for an algebra lesson on numerical inequality that leverages Mathcad’s powerful computational thinking and communication capabilities to dig deeper into the concepts of equality and rational …
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Tagged algebra, calculators, education, equivalence, irrational numbers
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Teaching Math with Technology: My Journey from Ti to Mathcad
As a young math teacher in the early 1990s I began teaching with the Ti-81 graphing calculator. In 1993, I was invited to a statewide mathematics teacher conference to give a presentation on using the programming features of the Ti-81 calculator to solve quadratics. Although I have presented at bigger conferences during the last 17 years, I don’t think that …
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Tagged calculators, college readiness, engineering calculation software, user
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Why Don’t My Students Love Mathcad As Much As I Do?
As September comes to a close college students all over the country are experiencing Mathcad for the first time in their physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and engineering classes. In this regard September 2010 is a noteworthy one within the Mathcad Education Program. The students’ widespread use of Twitter has given us a new perspective on their first experiences with Mathcad. …
