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- From: milt_petruk@crame.educ.ualberta.ca (Milt Petruk)
- Subject: Announcement: Math Course via Computer
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- Organization: Canadian Center for the Development of Instructional Computing
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:59:23 GMT
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- Jan 20, 1993
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- The Provincial Government of Alberta, in conjunction with the University of
- Alberta╒s Canadian Center for the Development of Instructional Computing,
- is pleased to announce the completion of Level 4 Mathematics. This is a
- self-contained full year senior level high school mathematics course
- delivered totally online and stored on CD-ROM.
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- Level 4 Mathematics CD-ROM is a complete course in grade 12 university
- entrance-level math. The equivalent course, when taught in the ╥normal╙
- classroom is more than 125 hours of instruction. The CD-ROM version
- occupies just under 60 mb and runs on any Macintosh with 2.5 mb with
- System 6.0.x and 4mb with System 7.x. It displays on a 9 inch monochrome
- screen.
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- The course consists of 7 units, Polynomial Functions, Exponential Functions
- & Logarithms, Sequences, Series & Limits, Trigonometry, Conic Sections,
- Statistics and Permutations & Combinations. Each unit is divided up into
- topics (the number of topics in a unit varies) and each topic is divided up
- into several objectives.
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- Students use a menu-driven front end to display a choice of units. They
- select the unit of choice by clicking on it. This displays a choice of
- topics for that parti
- on it. Students can then choose to take a tutorial on that topic or be
- tested on it by entering an interactive test bank dealing with that topic.
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- In addition to tutorials which are loaded with animated graphics
- three-dimensional movies and interactive learning sequences, students have
- access to explorers in four of the units, Polynomial Functions,
- Exponential Functions & Logarithms, Trigonometry, and Conic Sections.
- Explorers allow students to vary the parameters of equations in each of
- these units and instantly observe the effects in a graph window.
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- Further details can be obtained from:
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- Dr. Milt Petruk, Director
- The Canadian Center for the Development of Instructional Computing
- Room 3-102 Education North
- Faculty of Education
- University of Alberta
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5
- Telephone (403) 492-3935 Fax (403) 492-3179
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- or by
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- Internet: milt_petruk@crame.educ.ualberta.ca
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- Dr. Petruk will also be presenting at the Florida Educational Technology
- Conference in Tampa, Feb. 2-5, 1993. He will be available to meet with any
- interested parties.
-
- :o)
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