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 by typing “L1:=y=3x+2” you could avoid the first equal sign…
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 them graph it implicitly. I’m trying to plan ahead here,…
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 little activity” without involving any technology. So it will actually…
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 part of the tablet image that goes on to the…
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 with a pro-user who’s also a teacher. While he didn’t…
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 start with a CAS when the learning curve would be…
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 the preliminary readings (see sidebar for some good references). I’m…