{"id":72221,"date":"1999-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-math-professors-students-find-internet-adds-to-education\/"},"modified":"1999-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-math-professors-students-find-internet-adds-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1999\/03\/uri-math-professors-students-find-internet-adds-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 math professors & students find Internet adds to education"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — March 31, 1999 — Three 溏心vlog免费B站 mathematicians are part of the revolution that is radically changing the way math is being taught, and they aren\u2019t hearing math anxiety complaints from their troops\u2014the students. In fact, 溏心vlog免费B站 Professors Dean Clark of Westerly, Barbara Kaskosz of Wakefield, and Lewis Pakula of the East Side of Providence are helping to lead the charge. Their \u201cweapon\u201d is the Internet. The three are incorporating powerful mathematical software packages, Maple and Mathview, into the curriculum. Using this software, the three faculty members have written course programs that illuminate what math means and how it can be applied. \u201cYou can\u2019t find stuff like this at other Internet sites. It\u2019s unique to 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d says Clark who has searched other colleges\u2019 math Web pages and found nothing comparable. \u201cThe Internet is a new tool,\u201d says Kaskosz \u201cbut there is a tendency to do the same old thing. We\u2019re using Maple in a more creative and accessible way. It gives students more insight into what the problems mean.\u201d Pakula agrees, noting that technology is changing math and science instruction. Software is rivaling textbooks. Now even the most complex calculations whose algebraic and graphical difficulties were once considered too great to be done \u201cby hand\u201d can be completed by computer software within seconds. \u201cWe can present more sophisticated problems and concentrate on the bigger picture,\u201d he says. The problems in Clark\u2019s course are genuinely puzzling. An avid puzzle enthusiast and graphic designer, Clark has developed an interactive Web site (www.uri.edu\/artsci\/mth\/w108) that is colorful, clever and, well, fun. Using the commercial MathView software, Clark created the interactive designs while his undergraduate assistant Mike Smith built the site. (See sidebar story on Smith.) The site challenges students to do such tasks as design a slot machine, figure out card shuffling tricks, and open a diabolical combination lock. \u201cThe students are using analytical skills with symbolic algebra,\u201d says Clark who teaches Math 108, a general education course designed for students who have no specialized knowledge of math. On the other hand, Barbara Kaskosz and Lewis Pakula use Maple, a research-level program, to design a series of interactive worksheets for calculus. Worksheets can be downloaded via the Internet from the Mathematics Department\u2019s Web site. Maple, with its great facilities for graphics and visualization, enlivens the courses and prepares the students for the new educational and workplace conditions in this era of rapid technological change. So far, nearly 600 calculus students have participated in the project. The three professors say the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. \u201cThe students know they need to know the technology. It\u2019s a new world and they have to keep pace,\u201d says Pakula. \u201cBesides, many of our undergraduate students already have been using computers for 10 years or more. They\u2019re comfortable at the computer keyboard.\u201d 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Mathematics Department Web site address is www.math.uri.edu. For More Information: Dean Clark, 874-4457 Barbara Kaskosz, 874-4445 Lewis Pakula, 874-4436 Jan Sawyer, 874-2116\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — March 31, 1999 — Three 溏心vlog免费B站 mathematicians are part of the revolution that is radically changing the way math is being taught, and they aren\u2019t hearing math anxiety complaints from their troops\u2014the students. In fact, 溏心vlog免费B站 Professors Dean Clark of Westerly, Barbara Kaskosz of Wakefield, and Lewis Pakula of the East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}