Comments on: Wolfram Alpha for Inquiry Based Learning in Calculus

By: Maria H. Andersen

Maria H. Andersen — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:17:34 +0000

Yup!

By: Thomas Lingefjärd

Thomas Lingefjärd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:56:43 +0000

Hey

Is is okay for you if I use your ideas in my talks to Swedish teachers about how to use WolframAlpha in their teaching?

Best regards, Thomas

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By: josh g.

josh g. — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:28:24 +0000

You can do IBL at a secondary level as well with just regular graphing calculators. (eg. reverse-engineering how quadratics turn into parabolas)

Depending on the topic, you can also do it without any technology at all. I was a student in one lesson (in a math-ed class) where we were given squiggles on a whiteboard and told to “find the formula”. A couple of hours and a few hints later, and we had discovered Euler’s formula (the topology one, not the complex analysis one).

Not that using the tech is at all bad, just wouldn’t want people thinking it’s limited to it.

By: Bob Mathews

Bob Mathews — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:04:50 +0000

Thanks Maria. I think W|A is a game-changing CAS too, but it’s hard not to notice it does take its own unique syntax. MathType 6.6 for Windows was released barely a month ago and has a command to “View in Wolfram|Alpha”. Create the equation or expression as you normally would, select it, choose the View in WA command and you’re there — without a new syntax to learn or anything else getting in the way.