I have to admit this is one of the first reviews I’ve done based on the recommendation of a student. Last spring, one of my students came in completely psyched about a present her parents had given her, Brainetics. I’d never even heard of Brainetics, so she had to get me up to speed. It turns out that Brainetics is a DVD program designed to teach kids how to do complex math mentally.
Wipe that shocked look off your face, Big Bird. It turns out that Sesame Street, the children’s show probably best known for encouraging reading skills is getting a increased focus on mathematics and science for the upcoming season. According to an article on the Examiner.com, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, the Count (of course), and the rest of the gang will be embracing the STEM curriculum (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in season 42.
Click here to buy the Texas Instruments Little Professor on Ebay. Little Professor–LCD version One of the earliest electronic toys I had (and certainly my first math toy) was the Texas Instruments Little Professor. While I’ve heard some people refer to it as a child’s calculator, that’s really not an accurate description. It was a handheld device that quizzed you on simple math problems. The problems were all simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Click here to visit Ed2Go and see their latest course offerings . I’ve been studying dozens of reviews of the Ed2Go online classes. It seems pretty clear that there are two competing schools of thought, and from what I’ve read online, the members of those schools are pretty consistent. Students of the Ed2Go.com classes seem to really love them. College professors are less than thrilled. Here’s a look at the reasons behind each.
Please click here to buy your TI-Nspire on Amazon. Although I’ve “refreshed” this article about the original TI-Nspire Grayscale (black and white) to include information on the latest operating system upgrades and a little bit on the CX release, I suggest you check out my new TI-Nspire CX Review to learn more about the latest TI-Nspire model. The TI-Nspire CX is a huge upgrade that includes a color screen, backlighting, and a new slim design.
Buy the Canon X Mark 1 Calculator Mouse on Canon.com.Canon Xmark 1 Calculator Mouse It’s been a whole year since I originally wrote about the Cannon X Mark 1 Calculator Mouse back in the summer of 2010, the perfect marriage of a calculator and mouse. Well, we waited for the originally announced release in November 2010 which never came. I assumed that Canon had discontinued the project altogether. And all of a sudden, the X Mark 1 Calculator Mouse is back in the news.
I never cease to be amazed by the ingenuity of the Texas Instruments hacker/programmer community. TechCrunch is reporting the release of a web browser for the TI-83/TI-84 family of graphing calculators. This is far from an official Texas Instruments release. Chris Mitchell, “KermMartian,” a Ph.D. student at NYU, has named his creation Gossamer. This a text based browser on the order of Lynx, if any of you can remember that far back.
Wolfram is on fire. While the company behind Mathematica has been a presence in high level mathematical circles for over a decade, Wolfram’s flurry of activity over the last year or so has been truly amazing. First came a mobile version of Wolfram Alpha, their popular web application, followed shortly by the Wolfram course assistant apps. Now comes the release of a new document format, the Computational Document Format or CDF.
Please click here to buy your TI-Nspire CX on Amazon . TI and Casio have taken very different approaches with their color calculators I’ve heard the question many times over the last few months: “What’s better, the TI-Nspire CX or Casio Prizm?” It’s a natural comparison. They’re the world’s first full color graphing calculators, both with the capability to graph on photographs, both released within a few months of each other in 2011.
NPR put up a nice podcast on Weekend Edition this past Saturday about Leonardo da Pisa’s (aka Fibonacci) “Book of Calculation.” Most of us are familiar with Fibonacci’s famous sequence of numbers that became known as the Fibonacci numbers, where any number in the sequence after the first two is found by adding the previous two: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … I have to admit, I wasn’t aware until I heard this podcast what an impact Fibonacci had on the ability of regular people to do arithmetic.
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