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16 February 1998 Vol. 3, No. 7
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
ClarisWorks Spreadsheets | TAP - Ada Project |
Fractal Explorer
SPREADSHEET LESSONS: GRAPHS - Suzanne Alejandre
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/spreadsheet.html
Step-by-step directions for using ClarisWorks spreadsheets,
written by a teacher active in the middle school classroom.
Suzanne Alejandre's students are given lessons on making
graphs using a ClarisWorks spreadsheet file and apply what
they have learned to team projects involving a survey,
data collection, and data display. Basic instructions are
included for:
Bar Graphs
- how to make a bar graph
- changing fonts and colors
Pie Charts
- how to make a pie chart
- changing fonts and colors
Pictograms
- changing graphics
- changing icons to picts
- how to use Web graphics
- suggested sites to download icons
Other Graphs
- how to make a graph
- graphing linear functions
- graphing polynomial functions
- graphing exponential functions
Also see Suzanne's new Math Lessons table of contents:
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/
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TAP: THE ADA PROJECT
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/
A clearinghouse for information and resources relating to
women in computing. Links include:
- bibliographies and online papers
- conferences, past and upcoming
- employment resources and information
- fellowship, grant, and award information
- news and announcements about women in computer science
- organizations and discussion groups
- photo gallery of women and computers
- projects and programs on women and computer science
- statistics on women in computer science
- TAP Junior - information and issues relating to
K-12 girls and computing
TAP also includes biographies of notable women of mathematics
and computing, past and present, and other resources relevant
to the history of computing:
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/notable-women.html
The authors, Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Hupfer, invite
contributions to this volunteer effort.
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FRACTAL EXPLORER - Neil Kettler
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~user1209/fractals/
A program that lets you zoom in on fractal images. Pick one
of the fractal types and click on an interesting part of the
image; the program will calculate a new image and you can
then zoom again. Control color and zoom options with the
pull-down menus below the image.
Select from these types and generate many thousands of
fractals:
- Mandelbrot
- Lyapunov
- Lee Mandel 1
- Newton
- Magnet
- Julia
The site also offers links to galleries and other fractal
sites. For more information, see the Fractal FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fractal-faq/
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ALGEBRAIC PROBLEM-SOLVING - Sharon Fox
Sharon Fox, a Walden University MS student and Math/Computer
teacher at Brookfield Academy in Hubertus, Wisconsin, is
looking for colleagues who teach math and/or spreadsheets
and are interested in participating in a chat session focus
group in support of her graduate research study on the
learning processes of algebraic problem-solving techniques.
For more information see her proposal:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9442/proposal.htm
Sharon is also seeking Ph.D. candidates who could be key
informants to fill out an email questionnaire. If you are
interested, write to her at sfox@waldenu.edu.
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