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Peer reviewedShealy, Barry E. – Mathematics Teacher, 1996
Presents four activities that use graphing calculators, spreadsheets, and graphing software to model population growth. (MKR)
Descriptors: Functions (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Download full textMartinez-Cruz, Armando M. – 1995
This paper documents how eight high school students in a precalculus class enhanced with graphing calculators think about functions. Three models of thinking about functions emerged from students' function images observed over a period of 9 months. In the graph model, students believed that functions are essentially graphs; in the equation model,…
Descriptors: Calculus, Concept Formation, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedStevens, Jill – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Presents activities in which students develop and analyze scatterplots on graphing calculators to model corn growth, decay, a box of maximum volume, and weather prediction. Provides reproducible worksheets. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Functions (Mathematics)
