Getting Graphs to Instructure Canvas Discussions
It’s not too hard to get graphs (or any kind of image that you can grab off your screen)...
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Category: Digital Graphs and Diagrams
Logarithm 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...
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 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...
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 MoreDon’t get WolframAlpha Implications? Try these examples.
Wolfram|Alpha is a “computational search engine” built by Wolfram Research (the developers of Mathematica). W|A (pronounce this as “walpha” if you’d like) is similar in appearance to the search engines that we are used to and...
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What if there was a Google for Math?
WolframAlpha is launched
Read MoreCreating Inequality Graphs
One of my assistants requested advice about creating an inequality graph (with grey shading) using PowerPoint, so I thought I might as well share it here too.The trick is to use a Freeform drawing object, and then send the...
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