Includes a teacher's edition with all answers and five quizzes. Uses current and historical examples to explore the graphing and programming capabilities of the calculator. Topics include measures of central tendency, scatter plots, box plots, and lines of best fit. Solutions are included. Encourages students to explore the real world and to make connections between it and math or science topics.
Materials used are common and easily accessible.
It shows the connection between musical scales and fractions, and the significant role of mathematics in architecture and chemistry. Software program, for Macintosh or Windows, features a sophisticated sketching tool for constructing simple textbook figures, working models of the Pythagorean theorum, perspective drawings, Escher-like tessellations, fractals, animated sine waves, graphs, and curves. Drawings can be transformed. Includes user's guide. Introductory video is not recommended.