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Lapp, Douglas A. – 2001
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of graphing technology for the teaching of mathematics. This interest has been, in part, sparked by the recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards and "Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education."…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Technology, Graphing Calculators, Higher Education
Tinker, Robert F., Ed.; Krajcik, Joseph S., Ed. – 2001
Education has traditionally studied the world by bringing it into the classroom. This method can result in situated learning that appears to students to have no relevance outside the classroom. Students acquire inert, decontextualized knowledge that they cannot apply to real problems. The obvious solution to this shortcoming is to reverse the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphing Calculators, Laboratory Equipment
Sales, Cynthia L.; Ragan, Nicole M.; Murphy, Maureen Kendrick – NEACT Journal, 1999
Reviews three projects that use a graphing calculator linked to a calculator-based laboratory device as a portable data-collection system for students in chemistry classes. Projects include Isolation, Purification and Quantification of Buckminsterfullerene from Woodstove Ashes; Determination of the Activation Energy Associated with the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Educational Technology, Graphing Calculators, Hands on Science