Technology in the IMP classroom

Lynne Alper, Dan Fendel,
Sherry Fraser, Diane Resek

The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) has developed a new four-year high school curriculum which is organized around units lasting from 5 to 8 weeks. Each unit centers on a rich problem, and students develop new concepts and skills by solving that central problem. Graphing calculators play an important role in the IMP curriculum, involving simulations, curve-fitting, operations with matrices, and programming. Examples of the use of calculators in the curriculum and guiding principles for their use are given in this paper.

Lynne Alper, Dan Fendel, Sherry Fraser, Diane Resek

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Gómez, P. & Waits, B. (Eds.) (1996). Roles of calculators in the classroom.

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