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

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S090

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Developing Precalculus Concepts in Context

Marsha Davis


Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226


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ABSTRACT

This presentation explores how contextual problems requiring the use of technology can provide an effective means of motivating and developing the mathematics needed to solve them. Real world examples will include projecting the population size of an endangered sea turtle and developing a model for atmospheric pressure given elevation.

Keyword(s): applications, precalculus