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Publisher: Desmos
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This browser-based calculator provides a platform for users to perform calculations , share, and create interactive Whiteboard resources. Choose from Cartesian or polar grids, select…
  
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This resource is a set of free interactive Java-based courseware for science and mathematics structured around collections of activities, lessons, and discussions. The interactive…
Vector Addition with Integer Components  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This simulation offers beginning students practice in two-dimensional vector addition. It is relatively simple, as the x and y components of each vector are integers. Given the…
Vector Addition Patterns Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This item is a Java simulation that illustrates the tail-to-tip method of adding vectors. As students adjust lengths and angles of two vectors, the resultant vector and components…
  
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R. Meylani and D. Teuscher
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R. Meylani and D. Teuscher, Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 787 - 794 (2011).
This study establishes a theoretical framework for predicting the American College Testing (ACT) Mathematics sub-score and AP Calculus AB and BC scores from the Precalculus Concept…
  
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This interactive example takes learners step-by-step through a trigonometry problem. It shows a person on the ground looking up to sight both a treetop and a building top along an a…
  
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This web page provides an elementary trigonometry proficiency drill. Related pages are also linked to this page. This is part of an extensive web site, "From Stargazers to…
  
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Publisher: Department of Physics, University of Guelph
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This website offers a tutorial on exponential growth and decay. The tutorial includes an introduction to exponential growth and decay, example problems, and a series of self-paced…
  
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This website offers a tutorial on graphing oscillating functions. The tutorial includes an introduction to graphing oscillating functions, example problems, and a series of…
  
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This website offers a tutorial on trigonometry. The tutorial includes an introduction to trigonometry, example problems, and a series of self-paced questions. This is part of…