CMU and T3™ Professional Development

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MTH 595AQ

T3™-Calculus Using the TI-89


Who should take this course: Teachers and prospective teachers of Calculus and secondary mathematics teachers in grades 10-14. All teachers interested in learning about the TI-89 in the context of Calculus content would benefit from this course.

TI educational technology used: TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, or Voyage 200, a TI-GRAPH LINK™ cable, TI-Connect™ software


Note: The TI technologies are not included in the cost of the course.

Objective: This course introduces ways of incorporating graphing technology into your calculus lessons to enrich instruction and extend your students' comprehension. Essential topics limits, rates of change, differentiation and its applications, Riemann Sums, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, integration and its applications and some later lessons on sequences and series (Taylor and Maclaurin), differential equations, and vector functions.

Focus: The primary focus of this course is to use the TI-89 family of graphing calculators to enhance the teaching and learning of Calculus. This course contains 26 self-paced learning modules written by experienced teachers. Each module has 2-4 lessons as well as tips and hints on integrating the TI-89 effectively into your lessons plans.

Computer Requirements:


Navigation Tips:
There are 8 ‘weeks’ to the course content. Each week is available two weeks before the due date for the assignments in that week. At the start of the course you will have access to week 1 and week 2. After that you will see the additional weeks appear on Sunday.
In each week are links to up to four ‘modules’. Click the link to the module’s lessons. Once you see the introduction page there will be an orange link bar at the top of the page to move among the lessons. At the end of the lessons is a ‘self-test’ where you can check your answers.
In each week there are also assignments, discussions and a quiz. See the syllabus for details on these course requirements.

 

 

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