Teaching with the HP48G Graphics Calculator
Malcolm Anderson, Lyn Bloom, Ute Mueller and Pender Pedler
l.bloom@cowan.edu.au
School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
The graphics calculator has the potential to facilitate enormous improvement in the teaching and learning of mathematics. It can carry out all the routine calculations available on a standard calculator but its real strength lies in its ability to carry out symbolic calculations, to manage tables of values and to plot graphs. This graphing facility can be used not merely to obtain approximations but also to interpret data and illustrate concepts.
This Tutorial will provide a hands-on introduction to the use of the HP48G graphics calculator at the upper secondary/lower tertiary level. Participants will use examples fselected rom the areas of functions and graphs, calculus and linear algebra.
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