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Glazer, Evan – 2001
This resource book, written for mathematics teachers and school library media specialists, provides Web resources that promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. It consists of 153 activities that address topics in prealgebra, algebra, geometry, precalculus, calculus, probability, and statistics. Each activity has a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Technology, High Schools, Mathematics Activities
Samaniego, A. Homero Flores; Barrera, Susana Victoria – 1999
A proposal for teaching how to graph functions is presented on the basis of the teaching theory of didactical situations implemented by the French author Guy Brousseau. The proposal is aimed at students in 12th grade in high school (USA) or in a freshman calculus course. The TI-92 graphic calculator was used as a teaching aid. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Functions (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators, Graphs

Lapp, Douglas A.; Cyrus, Vivian Flora – Mathematics Teacher, 2000
Examines four areas of difficulty with graphing and modeling, identifies confusions and misconceptions, and shows how these areas interact in the presence of data-collection devices. (KHR)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Graphs, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rochowicz, John A. – 1998
College courses that are taught without any technology are part of the past. With software that can do almost any mathematics including calculus, traditional teaching, with the instructor as all-knowing, is obsolete. In this paper, a comparison is made between business mathematics courses and general physics courses taught at a small private…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology