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Animations & Simulations

Animations & Simulations. Frank Griffin Cate School, Carpinteria, CA TCM Conference, NCSSM January 2016. Rationale. Math becomes dynamic Students ask “ What if ? ” Current Math more interesting More exciting/difficult math becomes accessible Students experience those aha moments.

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Animations & Simulations

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  1. Animations & Simulations Frank Griffin Cate School, Carpinteria, CA TCM Conference, NCSSM January 2016

  2. Rationale Math becomes dynamic Students ask “What if ?” Current Math more interesting More exciting/difficult math becomes accessible Students experience those aha moments

  3. What do you see?

  4. What do you see?

  5. What do your students see?

  6. In 2002, from the movie

  7. Animations Algebra Tiles Pythagorean Theorem Unit Circle Parabola game Properties of Conics

  8. Simulations Coin Flips Showing that probability is unpredictable in the short run, but predictable in the long run Birthday Problem

  9. Visualizations Law of Sines Trig examples Taylor Polynomials Polar Rose curves

  10. 25th Annual Exeter Math Conference Frank Griffin Cate School Carpinteria, CA • Frank_Griffin@cate.org

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