The last couple of weeks, I’ve been looking at k5learning.com, a site designed to help elementary school children learn arithmetic facts. There is a lot to like with the site… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Software reviews
MathBlaster.com Review: This Is Not Your Parents’ Math Blaster
While I barely remember it today, the original Math Blaster, released in the late 1980′s was a popular game designed to teach kids math that showed up in the computers at my elementary school and countless others. The Math Blaster series has continued to be popular for over two decades. Today, Knowledge Adventure handles the… Continue Reading
Algebrator Review
The last few days I’ve been playing around with Softmath’s product for helping students learn algebra: Algebrator. There seems to be a lot of curiosity about this product, so I wanted to do an Algebrator review.… Continue Reading
Reflex Math Review
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been looking at a system called Reflex Math, designed to help kids learn arithmetic facts. The stated goal of Reflex Math is to gain “math fact fluency.” Reflex is designed to help students achieve fluency through an interactive system of games and puzzles. Reflex is a cloud based… Continue Reading
Wolfram Launches Computational Document Format, CDF Files
Wolfram is on fire. While the company behind Mathematica has been a presence in high level mathematical circles for over a decade, Wolfram’s flurry of activity over the last year or so has been truly amazing. First came a mobile version of Wolfram Alpha, their popular web application, followed shortly by the Wolfram course assistant… Continue Reading
TI-Nspire 3.0 Science Briefing and the “TI-Nspire Way”
I recently had my second briefing about the TI-Nspire CX and Nspire OS 3.0 with Mark Fry, Texas Instruments’ product line strategy manager for the TI-Nspire. While my first briefing back in February focused on the announcement of the Nspire CX and the broad range of new capabilities coming to the Nspire line, this time Fry focused in on giving me an overview of the science capabilities of Nspire 3.0 and offered insight into the continued development of the Nspire.… Continue Reading
Mathematica Review
While I’ve focused on graphing calculator information, I’m interested in other math education technologies. A Mathematica 8 review is my first major software review.… Continue Reading
Video: Microsoft math add-in for Word and OneNote
Click here for our article on the Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word 2010 and OneNote. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcdMI6PRdQ… Continue Reading
Microsoft math add-in for Word and OneNote
On Tuesday, Microsoft released the Mathematics Add-in for Word 2010 and OneNote users. If you’ve never used equation editor or a previous release of the mathematics add-in, it gives significant mathematical capabilities to Word.… Continue Reading