On the Impact of the First Generation of Graphing Calculators on the Mathematics Curriculum at the Secondary Level
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Before the second generation of graphing calculators with true symbolic manipulation capabilities start influencing the mathematics classroom, it is important to ponder on the main contributions made by the first generation. In this note we present five of these contributions via a selection of examples that illustrate the impact of numerical and graphical capabilities, multiple representations and methods, and iterative and recursive solutions.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996