Strategies for Giving Tests with Desmos Graphing Calculator
Many of us (and our students) have fallen in love with the Desmos Graphing Calculator. Two...
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Category: Calculators
Taking the Algebra Out of College Algebra
Today’s talk from AMATYC was “Taking the Algebra Out of College Algebra” (to...
Read MoreeLearning Tools for STEM
For anyone who has ever had trouble convincing your administration to give you the proper tools to teach online, I give you this little gift: eLearning Tools for STEM, published today in eLearning Magazine. The tools for STEM...
Read MoreTrends in Reform Instructional Strategies for Math
I spent most of the day yesterday compiling data from the last four CBMS reports to get a sense of how widely adopted reform instructional practices are being used in mathematics. The graphs are interesting. You will probably...
Read MoreHistory of Tools in the Teaching of Math
Somewhere around hour #28 of dissertation research, I began looking for the answer to this question: Anyone know a resource where someone has documented a timeline of math technologies for teaching or math innovations...
Read MoreTI Calculator featured in SNL
Just in case you don’t always watch SNL, here’s the video from Saturday’s show, which included two brothers, being really excited to get a TI calculator. I wonder if this qualifies SNL with points for the...
Read MoreMath Warriors
Math Warriors: An extra assignment that got a little out of control.
Read MoreMaria’s Calculator Rant and throwing down a challenge
Here’s my little graphing calculator rant… it started as a P.S. to the previous post about the free Casio and grew into something much larger than a P.S. Anyways, don’t read if you don’t want to hear me...
Read MoreAndroid: The Future of Calculators?
Google has announced a new open-source platform called Android for mobile phones. Program developers are eligible for a piece of $10 million for developing novel and useful mobile phone programs.You can watch Google’s demo...
Read MoreTI-SmartView Drag and Drop
Here is a tip that I picked up at the Tablet presentation at AMATYC involving TI-Smartview. You don’t have to have a tablet to use this tip. It will work for anyone!Watch the short video clip to see how to import the...
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