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The Internet has become an important part of the education process.  It provides a rich source of real world data and the capability to produce live simulations.  The instant access to real-world data allows the mathematical interpretation of real-life models.  Through the use of interactive programs, it also possible to create virtual labs and simulations to explore, conjecture and predict models of real-world situations.

Internet Explorations

 

  • Example 1: Search Engines: Looking for Math Technologies
  • Example 2Internet Exploration: Statistics and Rates in the New York City Marathon
  • Example 3Internet Exploration: Weather
  • Example 4Internet Exploration: Baseball
  • Example 5: PBL: Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble
  • Example 6: PBL: The Great Penny Toss
  • Example 7: PBL: Data Collections and Exchanges
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Interactive Web Sites

Using applets (programs written in the Java™ programming language (Sun Microsystems) or or/and JavaScript (Netscape's cross-platform scripting language for client and server applications) with a Java enabled browser it is possible to create interactive web pages that could execute the program with the information provided by the viewer, producing the results that the viewer sees. 

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Simulations

One of the great uses of computers in education is to be able to simulate different models to illustrate many theoretical and practical ideas.

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Virtual Labs

These are interative web sited that recreate lab environment in any science allowing the view to "participate" in the experiment through computer interaction.

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