| Catalog Description |
This module is designed to familiarize teachers with a new and very
innovative advanced algebra course. This course presents algebra from the perspective of
modeling and data analysis using the basic algebraic functions and a graphing calculator
with data analysis capabilities such as any of the TI-83 family of graphing calculators including the TI-82,83,83+ and 83+ Silver Edition. This new approach will be
useful in high school and college for students who have completed two years of algebra but
are not ready for precalculus. It reviews algebra without repeating earlier course work,
and it clearly demonstrates the importance of algebra to the solution of real world
problems. Credit: 1/4 grad. unit (= 1 sem. hr.)
or 3 CEUs.
Algebra through Modeling with the TI-83 family of Graphing
Calculators was written by Tony Peressini and John
Luker of the University of Illinois during November 1996.
It was revised by Peressini and Luker during
November 1997 and by Peressini and Tom
Anderson in November, 2003. Instructor for this module
is Tony Peressini.
Check out some sample projects
for this module!
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