Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S122

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


Workbook Emulation: The Scandalous State of Instructional Math Software

John C. Miller


Department of Mathematics
The City College of CUNY
110 Riverside Dr. #14C
New York, NY 10024
USA


list of all papers by this author

Click to access this paper: paper.pdf

ABSTRACT

Most instructional software emulates workbooks, using short answer problems with 'canned' solutions. Intelligent, step-by-step help during problem solving is shockingly rare, yet surprisingly simple to provide. Adopters should individually and collectively demand intelligent instructional software from publishers, and every Internet-based course should provide such support.

Keyword(s): software