Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Spreadsheets for Math

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sinclair/problem/intro.html

When am I ever going to use a spreadsheet in math? I jest. In math, we could use a spreadsheet to analyze the manipulation of functions. For example, we could create a table and observe how the value of the function changes as the input changes. We could then refelect on why or how those changes occur.

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