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This booklet is the ninth in a series of nine from the Teacher Training Institute at Hofstra University (New York) and describes the content and the approach of an institute course in which the participants use the personal computer as a personal tool within the mathematical discovery process of making conjectures, testing those conjectures, and verifying results and/or retesting. Pedagogical commentary and appropriate Pascal programs are presented for four topics, including: (1) iterated quadratic maps; (2) fractal geometry with applications; (3) conditional probability as applied to baseball league trends and results; and (4) recursion and induction in sorting routines. (JJK)

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1007399
ERIC Subject
Computer Assisted Instruction;
Computer Software Evaluation;
Discovery Learning;
High Schools;
Higher Education;
Inservice Teacher Education;
Mathematics Education;
Mathematics Teachers;
Program Descriptions;
Secondary School Mathematics;
Secondary School Teachers;
Teacher Education Programs;
Teacher Workshops
Identifier / keyword
Hofstra University NY; PASCAL Programing Language
Target audience
Teachers, Practitioners
Sponsor
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Title
The Computer as an Experimental Tool in Teaching Mathematics. Dissemination Packet--Summer 1989: Booklet #9
Author
Hastings, Harold M.; And Others
Corporate/institutional author
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY. Dept. of Mathematics., Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY. School of Secondary Education.
Publication title
ERIC, Resources in Education (RIE)
Pages
54
Number of pages
54
Publication date
1989
Source type
Encyclopedia or Reference Work
Summary language
English
Language of publication
English
Document type
Instructional Material/Guideline, Reference Document
Subfile
ERIC, Resources in Education (RIE)
Accession number
ED341562
ProQuest document ID
62897389
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/encyclopedias-reference-works/computer-as-experimental-tool-teaching/docview/62897389/se-2?accountid=208611
Last updated
2024-04-21
Database
Education Research Index