Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Denver, Colorado, March 17-20, 2011

Paper W003

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68984-4, Copyright (C) 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Towards a Pedagogical CAS

G. T. Springer


Hewlett-Packard Calculators

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ABSTRACT

What makes a computer algebra system (CAS) pedagogical? What steps have been taken to make a pedagogical CAS? This workshop will explore these questions by solving hands-on problems that will reveal pedagogically useful features of the HP 40gs CAS graphing calculator, the latest graphing calculator from HP.

Keyword(s): graphing calculators, computer algebra systems