


1 March 2004 Vol. 9, No. 9
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Texas Instruments Trade-Up Offer | Numeral
Spreadsheets in Education - Volume 2
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TRADE-UP OFFER
Texas Instruments is offering to trade-up your TI-83,
TI-83 Plus, or TI-83 Plus Silver Edition ViewScreen
handheld to the new TI-84 Plus Silver Edition ViewScreen
handheld for free! For more information about the trade-up
offer, visit:
http://education.ti.com/nctm
This trade up offer will be available in the TI booth at the
annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics, in Philadelphia, PA. If you will not be
attending the conference, you can still get a free TI-84
Plus Silver Edition ViewScreen handheld by sending in 20
proofs-of-purchase from your students' purchases of TI
graphing handhelds. For more information about this offer,
visit:
http://education.ti.com/84vpp
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NUMERAL
http://www.numeralsoft.co.uk/
Numeral is a recently introduced freeware program that will
convert number bases between 2 and 36. Also it will convert
numbers from Arabic numerals to Roman numerals and vice versa
and convert numbers to words.
The software has been tested and works with computers
operating under Windows 98 and Windows XP.
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ROMAN NUMERALS - ASK DR. MATH FAQ
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html
This page explains how to read and write Roman numerals,
discusses how Romans expressed fractions, shows how to use
Roman numerals to do arithmetic problems, and provides
resources for other numeral systems.
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SPREADSHEETS IN EDUCATION - Volume 2
http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/current.htm
Spreadsheets in Education (SIE) is an electronic journal
devoted to the publication of quality refereed articles
concerned with studies of the role that spreadsheets can play
in education.
They have just published the second number of volume 1,
including these articles:
- A Survey of 1st-year University Students' Ability to
Use Spreadsheets
- Nonlinear Control Systems Simulation Using Spreadsheets
- Spreadsheet Conditional Formatting: An Untapped Resource
for Mathematics Education
- Napoleon's Theorem and Beyond
- Knowing What Was Done: Uses of a Spreadsheet Log File
Also available:
Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2003)
http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/vol1number1.htm
In the Classroom Resources
http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/classroom.asp
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