Electronic Proceedings
of the 12th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics
Abstract
for 12933
Children doing mathematics like
mathematicians?
Authors: Anthony Harradine
Affiliations: Baker Centre, Prince
Alfred College
Keywords: Fun, Problem Solving,
Working like a mathematician, Casio
ClassPad,
High School, 1st Year University
The humble quadratic function is
something we all learn about in
school. In
this workshop you will work together on a problem that
will
engage your thinking and help you to see how we can use normal
high
school mathematics to have students behaving in a very similar
way to
mathematicians. To assist us in our thinking we will use the
graphing abilities and CAS abilities
of the Casio ClassPad 300 Plus,
but in the
end it is the mathematics that allows us to complete the
task.