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Beem, Paul – 1998
This paper introduces a teaching unit on using spiral symmetry in a geometry course for secondary education majors. The TI-92 graphing calculator is used to exploit the exponential function to analyze the geometric topic of similarity and to study the derivative of spirals. The paper provides some procedures and programs to generate spirals using…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Peer reviewedCyrus, Vivian Flora; Flora, Ben V. – Mathematics Teacher, 2000
Uses a discovery lesson for determining the area of an equilateral triangle given a side length as an illustration of how to introduce features of the TI-92 graphing calculator geometry package within a mathematical context. (KHR)
Descriptors: Area, Curriculum Development, Data Collection, Discovery Learning
