Mathmo is a review tool for A-level maths developed by the NRICH project at the University of Cambridge. It is advertised to work in Chrome, Safari, and on mobile devices. There are questions on wide range of topics in a typical American high school curriculum, though the range of question types within a topic is very limited. In some topics (logarithms, for example) there are a few different types of questions, but in most there is a single question type where just the specifics (numbers, functions, etc.) vary. You can ask for random questions from the wide range of syllabus topics or can choose your own specific topics to build up a set of questions. You work the problems on paper (or in your head) and then push the check answer button to compare your answer with the given one. If you want several questions on the same topic, you can add the topic multiple times to your question list or can click the new button from within a particular question.
I did experience a couple of minor bugs. Sometimes, the first time you look at a question you see the code rather than the mathematical notation. Clicking (or tapping) the question changes the code to notation. The description says that the color of the question changes once you indicate whether you got the question right or wrong. I didn't experience that either on the iPad or in Chrome.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Graph

Graph, by Ivan Johansen, is a free, open-source program for Windows that allows you to quickly and easily graph functions while giving you a lot of control over the appearance of the output. The images can be easily pasted into a word processing document and I found that the quality of the printed output when I pasted into Word was quite good. An excellent feature is an option which will label tick marks with any specified multiple of pi.
In fact, the program allows you to do a lot more than make just pretty pictures. For example, you can graph (and obtain the equation of) the line tangent to a function at a specified point or fit a line to a set of points.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
GeoGebra

I have only briefly previewed this free software created by Markus Hohenwarter for exploring algebra, geometry, precalculus, and calculus, but I'm excited about the possibilities I see there! The geometric construction tools are reminiscent of those in Geometer's Sketchpad. The algebraic tools seem more extensive than in GSP. Associated with the software is the GeoGebraWiki site, where educators can post resources related to GeoGebra.
EquationPlotter

Created at The Lawrenceville School, this is a great web-based tool for high school math teachers. It enables you to produce high quality, highly customizable graphs which can be integrated beautifully into word processing documents. In addition, the site includes many excellent demonstration applets of topics ranging from the unit circle to solids of revolution. Free registration is required to produce the graphs (but isn't needed to access the applets).
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