The test
Cal ArmstrongThings that immediately pops up....Having them able to use the TEXT to describe their variables and present their solutions neatly. We focused so much on the math work that I…
Leading by the nose? Or breaking a path?
Well, we did a bit of direct instruction (not Direct Instruction, which is completely different... kinda like variables in poorly designed programming languages) where, in order to lead them through…
And they find another one…
Well, we've been graphing now pretty successfully.... when we get to this simple little example:d = 230td = 200t+170.Plot the first, drag the second on to the grid, no problem.…
2nd foray
Having done graphing with Maple the other day, we worked a little bit with solving systems of equations by substitution. One of the students mentioned that instead of assigning names…
Dipping a toe in…
Okay... well we made an attempt at Maple 12 today... just a brief introduction to graphing. I deliberately did it by assigning names to the equationsL1:=y=3x+2Then I chose to have…
So it starts…
It begins tomorrow. Well, actually, it doesn't because the students don't have their laptops tomorrow so we will just do a "welcome back to school, I'm your teacher, here's a…
Out to the students
We've distributed out to the students instructions on how to install Maple on their laptop before they arrive in class. Normally (and in the future, one hopes) this will be…
Workshop day
So we had our workshop today... not bad, six teachers, so that's half the department. Two others were working at school and couldn't make it. A good four hour session…
Maple 12 Interface
One of the reasons we've decided to jump into this CAS process at this point in time is that the new interface is far more student-friendly. We were loath to…
Day -26
Just doing some preliminary setup for storing and sharing information on our project... the Drexel courses I've been taking on (Action) Research have been helpful in doing a lot of…