| Catalog
Description |
Fathom
is a software package designed to enrich your mathematics
curriculum, allowing you to use technology to more efficiently
examine data and the statistical process that are commonly
taught in middle grade and high school mathematics
classes. The software provides ways of dealing with
meaningful data sets, allowing the user to easily examine the
data as a collection, explore it graphically, look at it tabular
form, and to search for correlations within the data set.
The data examined can be data that was generated in the
classroom, data from data sets that are supplied with Fathom,
and by the use of drag-and-drop techniques even work with data
taken directly off of the Internet. Fathom also is well
designed to handle sampling and simulation activates that are
commonly used in the middle school through high school
mathematics curriculum.
This module is designed to familiarize teachers with this new
tool through interactive tutorials and then to demonstrate how
it can be used effectively in middle grade math classes through
advanced level high school statistic classes. Credit:
1/4 unit (= 1 sem. hr.) or 3 CEUs.
Using Fathom in the Classroom was written by Tom
Anderson of the University of Illinois during the summer of
2003. The instructor for this module is Tom Anderson. |
