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Parents, Children, and Functions in Sketchpad
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Functions are hard for students. Students seem to master various families of functions – linear, polynomial, exponential, trigonometric, and so forth. They can graph them, evaluate them, transform them, and answer a variety of questions about them. But ask even … Continue reading
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Tagged Algebra and Functions, Dynamic Geometry, Dynamic Number, Sketchpad
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Writing Mathematics with Sketchpad
In a recent blog post, Karen Coe referred to Conrad Wolfram’s opinion that programming is to mathematics what composition is to English. I’ve taught programming and written a lot of Sketchpad code, and I appreciate Wolfram’s analogy. In English class, … Continue reading
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Tagged Constructions, Dynamic Geometry, Fractals and Tessellations, Sketchpad, Software Development, Videos
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Preparing Cooperative Teachers in a Competitive World
I am troubled. Today is the first day of teaching my spring semester course, “Advanced Methods in Secondary Mathematics,” for my preservice master’s students. The mission of the Teacher Education Program at Penn is to prepare “reflective, collaborative, visionary teacher-leaders” … Continue reading
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