9_GDC

Aim

The aim of this session is to become more familiar with the role and workings of the Graphical Display calculator in teaching this course.

Session Outline


 * // ‘Calculators and Emulators’ //** – A brief look at the main two types of calculator available and emulators that teachers can use to help students learn about their calculators


 * // ‘What do I need to know?’ //** – A skill by skill guide to what is needed that will give us an opportunity to practise and ask questions

Included in this guide

‘What do I need to Know’ – a written guide to the skills are required by Maths Studies students.

All other resources related to this session can be found on the course wikispace

Additional resources required

Delegates will need the **TSM on GDCs** to refer to for this session

Here is the information from the occ for how to use the TI and Casio calculators and what working students should show.



here is a link to a site where you can download a casio emulator.

Here is the link for ti to get apps if you need them

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Here is the link to Ti for teacher and student worksheets and teaching ideas - well done for many of the topics we teach. You choose classroom activities.

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 * // ‘Teaching with the GDC’ //** – An activity designed to explore and share how the GDC can be used as a teaching tool.

Look at the following four datasets. Use your calculator to analyse the data and discuss the differences in the data sets.



Consider the following contingency table showin the results for the voting preferences of people from three different countries. Use the GDC to perform a chi2 test of independence for this table. Pay attention to the p number in the result. Can you change the numbers in the table to make the p number smaller? bigger? as small as possible? as big as possible?



How would you use your graphical calculator to investigate....

Exponential functions Quadratic functions Trig functions