Navigating WolframAlpha Pro Features
Last week I had to do a workshop about WolframAlpha, and I noticed that there are three different...
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Category: CAS
Abandoning Ship on Wolfram Alpha?
I am really getting fed up tired of having to explain Wolfram Alpha graphs to students. For some...
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Shifting Assessment in a World with WolframAlpha
I let my students use Wolfram Alpha when they are in class and when they are doing their homework...
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Math Technology to Engage, Delight, and Excite
This is the Plenary Address from MAA Michigan last week. Math Technology to Engage, Delight, and...
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TED Talk on Wolfram Alpha
The talk is titled “Computing a Theory of Everything”
Read MoreNYT Opinionator Series about Math
For a few months now, the NYT Opinionator Blog has been hosting a series of pieces that do a phenomenally good job of explaining mathematics in layman’s terms. The latest article is about Calculus (with a promise of more...
Read MoreLogarithm Graphs in Wolfram Alpha
At the Wolfram Alpha Workshop at ICTCM, there was universal disappointment about the fact that you cannot get a graph of a logarithm that is only over the real numbers. We tried everything we could think of to remove the...
Read MoreWolfram Alpha Discovery
Okay, technically it was a workshop at ICTCM, but with 30 math faculty in one room, all armed with computers, I couldn’t help but make it a discovery and brainstorming session too. I’m a firm believer in harnessing...
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Wolfram Alpha for Inquiry Based Learning in Calculus
This post outlines how to use a CAS system with concept-oriented assignments instead of process-oriented assignments.
Read MoreTeaching Math with Technology (Discussion Panel)
While I was at Wolfram Alpha Homework Day, I participated in a Panel Discussion about the Myths about Teaching with Technology. The panel ran 30 minutes and was mediated by Elizabeth Corcoran. There were three of us (all women,...
Read MoreMy Interview at Wolfram Alpha HomeworkDay
Believe it or not, it was scarier to watch the video than to do the interview! I think I will tuck my hair behind my ears next time. 🙂
Read MoreWolframAlpha: Recalculating Teaching and Learning
For at least a decade, we have had the ability to let CAS software perform computational mathematics, yet computational skills are still a large portion of the mathematics curriculum. Enter Wolfram|Alpha. Unlike traditional CAS...
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