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50 Years of ERIC
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Forster, Pat – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2007
A search on the Internet for resources for teaching statistics yields multiple sites with data sets, projects, worksheets, applets, and software. Often these are made available without information on how they might benefit learning. This paper addresses potential benefits from resources that target trend and variability relationships in bivariate…
Descriptors: Internet, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Web Sites
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Forster, Pat – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 1998
Describes approaches taken with concepts associated with exponential functions by using graphing calculators to provide students with concrete meaning for the sometimes abstract concepts involved and to link students' learning with their existing knowledge. (ASK)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Technology, Functions (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators
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Forster, Pat – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 1997
Describes four 50-minute lessons in which complex numbers are introduced to year-12 calculus students using hand-held calculators and laptop computers. (ASK)
Descriptors: Calculators, Calculus, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning)
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Forster, Pat – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 1997
Describes a study designing and implementing technology-based investigations and evaluates their impact on student learning. Discusses a teacher's mediation of the students' use of technology through curriculum materials, and considers some attributes of computers and graphics calculators that determined which tool was selected for each…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Graphing Calculators, Instructional Materials