Timeline for Is there a calculator centered secondary school curriculum somewhere?
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 9:37 | comment | added | JPBurke | @DavidMulder I added a long edit that gives a taste of what a SimCalc MathWorlds activity is like. I have conducted SimCalc activities, often for workshop groups of middle or high school students. Some of the activities are easy enough to explain that they can be accomplished in much less than a class period. Last month I had middle school students using motion detectors and SimCalc in order to challenge other teams of students to interpret position graphs and then physically act out motions. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 9:32 | history | edited | JPBurke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 8:34 | comment | added | JPBurke | It is an environment for mathematics education, meaning that it contains tools used to manipulate linked mathematical representations. Students use these tools for various purposes in the context of the curriculum activities. The educational aspect of the environment comes from the students use of tools acting on mathematical representations, interpreting mathematical representations, having discussions about their own contributions and the contributions of other students, etc. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 3:09 | comment | added | David Mulder | From cursory glancing over it, do I understand correctly that technology here was used as an educational tool or was it meant as a conclusive part of the mathematical exercise? | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 2:37 | history | answered | JPBurke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |