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Integrating Thinking Adds Power to Mathcad’s Symbolics
Recently, the Mathcad Team was mulling over a user inquiry about the following integral: How would you evaluate this integral? It is easy enough by hand if you know the calculus. Having spent much of my life introducing concepts like integration to middle and high school students, I might think of it this way: At this point you are probably …
Matrices in Algebra 1: Mathcad 15.0 Illustrates the Solutions Clearly
Easy Solutions and Visualizations: Exploring a System of Three Equations in Three Variables Using Mathcad In modern middle school and high school mathematics algebra is a gatekeeper course. Success in Algebra 1 in grade 8 is considered a prerequisite for college preparedness. My own first experience in Algebra 1 was at South Side Junior High School. At the time, a …
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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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. …
