10. Mathematics Visualization Program
MacCurveFit is a wonderful curve plotting, curve fitting, and data analysis program which was written by a scientist rather than a statistician. It will fit your data to a straight line y= ax+ b, give you the a and b values, and give the standard error of a and b individually. Plus all the higher power and exponential fitting you could want.
It is available on the Macintosh Freeware and Shareware sites.
The author has an email address at k.raner@chen.csiro.au
(commercial software) http://www.pierian.com
Among the many topics covered in the program, it includes interactive devices that help students with fractions, primes, percents, ratios, and
many more unique illustrations of mathematics.
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SuperGraph is an implicit grapher shareware product developed by a recent high school graduate, Mike Epstein. It is available for download at: http://www.nyiq.net/~epstein/programs/supergraph/
Written by a senior-level Computer Science major at the University of Washington and available from the author for download at http://www.oz.net/~bordenet
MathPad is simple and obvious to use, and extremely powerful. It is much more than a calculator if you wish to learn programming constructs. Makes plots too! Tiny RAM footprint, runs on every mac ever made. Mark Widholm wrote the application. FREEWARE!!
One user states: "I love using it for prototyping major projects in my MSc engineering classes."
Available for download at: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~whd/MathPad/index.html
Diamond Software
80 Grove Park Road South
Memphis, TN 38117
Uses the "Talker" plug-in using Apple plaintalk technology to generate some very amusing dialog, changing voices on-the-fly.
Both are also available in Spanish, using Apple Spanish voices (Carlos and Catalina) to generate Spanish dialog.
LifeLong Universe, Your Educational Resource on the Internet (tm), has been nominated for an NII Award. Their homepage, http://www.lifelong.com, contains educational courses, links, resources...for all ages.
A tool for analyzing and graphing numerical data and mathematical functions. It is one of the most powerful and easiest to use tools in the field co-authored by Evangelist Kurt Sutter <100022.2221@CompuServe.COM>
Pro Fit is a commercial product. There is, however, a fully functional trial version that's free for downloading. If you are interested, please have a look at the Pro Fit link at the publisher's home page:
http://www.cherwell.com/cherwell/
The pro Fit trial version can also be downloaded from the info-mac archieve and its mirrors.
The financial world depends heavily on mathematics. Here is a great site to help kids (of all ages) understand economics. If you're a beginner, start at the Beginner section. Here, you can find out about investing, bank accounts, bonds, stocks, and more. If you're more advanced, visit the Intermediate or Advanced sections for information beyond the basics. There's an investing game that you can play, and a goal calculator which helps you to compare different types of investments to achieve a desired goal. A handy glossary explains investment terms.
This software uses mathematics to teach basic investment concepts.
How You Can Use This Source:
Review the concepts of investing and learn about different types of investments.
Use the goal calculator to compare how long it will take to reach your goal using up to 5 different investment strategies.
This program was a Learning in Motion TOP TEN citation. It is available for download.
A mathematics visualization programs for Macintosh computers.
It can be found with documentation at:
http://rsp.math.brandeis.edu/3D-Filmstrip_html/3DFilmstripHomePage.html
Although not strictly freeware or shareware, there is a free licence to use it for non-commercial research and education
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