These are a Few of my Favorite Graphs
I’ve been collecting graphs at GraphsInTheWorld for about a year now, and I put together a...
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Category: Find and Use Data
Contemporary Algebra Collection (new resources 2/4/2019)
The Contemporary Algebra Collection now contains 28 activities spread from basic math to...
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Add Graphs In The World to Courses
Now you can add Graphs in the World to your courses in the LMS! Create a new “page” in...
Read MoreBattling Bad Science (and Statistics)
If you ever needed a REASON to calculate the highest point of a parabola that opens downward, here’s one.
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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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David McCandless: Data Detective
I just finished watching the TED Talk by David McCandless called “The Beauty of Data...
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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 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...
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 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...
Read MoreWhat we’re doing with WolframAlpha
Originally, I started this post with the title “What I’m doing with Wolfram|Alpha” and then I revised it, because it’s not just me using Wolfram|Alpha. My students are using it too. Here are some of the...
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