The best content here is found near the end where professors recognize that tools are for calculating and presenting conceptual learning opportunities. WolframAlpha is powerful, but brave, clever faculty will figure out how to use it to take students further in their understanding and applications of math concepts.
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Darren KuropatwaThe latest dilemma facing professors is whether to let students turn to a Web site called WolframAlpha, which not only solves complex math problems, but also can spell out the steps leading to those solutions. In other words, it can instantly do most of t
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21 Jun 09
Theresa Overalla Web site called WolframAlpha, which not only solves complex math problems, but also can spell out the steps leading to those solutions. In other words, it can instantly do most of the homework and test questions found in many calculus textbooks.
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Roland O'DanielI love the Wolfram Alpha site, if it does ignite another math war, then I'm OK with it. I think what it means is that we have to ask students different questions, ask them better questions, make them create their own problems, interpret their answers, decide what methods are most efficient and why, but don't stop asking them questions just because some are going to use the available tools.
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16 Jun 09
Kathy CannonThe best content here is found near the end where professors recognize that tools are for calculating and presenting conceptual learning opportunities. WolframAlpha is powerful, but brave, clever faculty will figure out how to use it to take students further in their understanding and applications of math concepts.
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Mr. Wolfram,
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“I’m a person who believes that at any given time, one should use the best tools available,” he said.
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believes that at any given time, one should use the best tools available,
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“I suppose I have a personal experience that if you use more tools, you can get more done.”
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He opened WolframAlpha and entered a homework problem from his calculus course. The problem involved limits and square roots, and the service solved it easily. By clicking the link titled “show steps,” Mr. Petrak illustrated how students could write down those steps and pretend they understood the process when they had simply copied it.
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also opens the door to teaching more advanced concepts. It shows graphical representations of the equation and introduces concepts he would not usually get to in an introductory course.
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“It will make it possible for students to do different things than they did before, and it may require instructors to ask questions differently than they might have done in the past.”
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conceptual, not computational
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