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Education 2) New Approaches, New Technologies
- EFIM A. GALPERIN, Departement de mathematiques, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3P8
Web-aided spreadsheet education: the myth and realities
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This survey is based on the author's new book ``Chess, computers and
education'', NP Research Publ., December 1999. The CAD-CAM-CAT-WAT
comparisons are presented as seen from student's and teacher's
viewpoints. Psychological issues related to classroom versus website
teaching are discussed. The student and teacher time frames in a
web-aided spreadsheet education are investigated in detail. Structural
and software provisions are proposed to facilitate development of
website education.
- JACK MACKI, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Reforming the first two years of engineering mathematics
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At the University of Alberta we have been experimenting with our first
two years of mathematics for engineering students. We have eliminated
several standard topics, and we introduce some topics earlier than in
traditional courses. We have modernized our labs, basing many of them
on Maple. We have tried, with only modest success to get mathematicians
to stop building walls around courses based on preconceived notions of,
e.g., what a course in linear algebra should contain.
- BILL RALPH, Department of Mathematics, Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1
Mathematics meets multimedia-the
journey through calculus software
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``Journey Through Calculus'' is cutting edge educational software that
I created to give students a brand new way to visualize calculus and
learn it interactively. In this talk, I'll show you how JTC has
revolutionized my classroom teaching and how students are using it in
labs and at home. You'll get to see JTC's amazing 3D animations and
some of its hundreds of interactive programs like ``The Greedy
Landlord'' and ``The Sliding Fireman''. To show you that JTC doesn't
leave out any of the hard details, I'll walk you through a completely
interactive proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Finally,
we'll look at the extensive testing and feedback that is available to
students in JTC.
- BILL RALPH AND JANET PIPER, Brock and Nelson Thomson Learning
JTC (Journey through calculus) workshop
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