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Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016

A few writers this issue make a point of not letting the tool do the thinking. Todd Moyer walks an Algebra 2 class through the Simplex Method by hand, partly so students stop believing the calculator’s “rref” button can reduce any matrix. Mackenzie Wall takes the opposite tack on motivation: rather than talk students into caring about statistics, she hands them data on whether wealth shapes quality of life and lets the question pull them in. Both ask students to do work the easy path would skip.

The rest leans on objects you can hold. Marsha Nicol Guntharp, Fred Browning, and Gloria Royle videotape toy ball poppers and track the flight in TI-Nspire to put projectile motion in front of algebra and calculus students; Amanda Mickus maps the seven pieces of the Soma cube onto Common Core standards across grade levels. And Bob Kinner finally answers “Mike’s Problem,” posed in these pages back in Spring 2001. Fifteen years is a long wait for a solution.


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Using Toy Animal Ball Poppers to Explore Projectile Motion in Algebra and Calculus Classes
Using Toy Animal Ball Poppers to Explore Projectile Motion in Algebra and Calculus Classes

Marsha Nicol Guntharp, Fred Browning and Gloria Royle

2017-02-01 Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016 • 1--6

Mike's Problem - A Proposed Solution
Mike's Problem - A Proposed Solution

Bob Kinner

2017-02-01 Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016 • 7--8

Using Soma Cubes to Master Common Core State Standards
Using Soma Cubes to Master Common Core State Standards

Amanda Mickus

2017-02-01 Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016 • 9--14

The Simplex Method for Systems of Linear Inequalities
The Simplex Method for Systems of Linear Inequalities

Todd O Moyer

2017-02-01 Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016 • 15--21

Social Justice Drives Students Deeper: A Statistics Lesson on Wealth Impacting Quality of Life
Social Justice Drives Students Deeper: A Statistics Lesson on Wealth Impacting Quality of Life

Mackenzie Wall

2017-02-01 Volume 74 • 2016 • Fall 2016 • 24--28

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