[ale] graphing calculator

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> drifter
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 13:29
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] graphing calculator
> 
> Gentle folk,
> my brother needs your help.
> He is retired navigator for the USN. Now tutoring kids in math in
> New Bern, NC, and finds the textbooks (middle school/high school)
> the kids are forced to use just about impossible.  From his point of
> view he is amazed they can learn any algebra/geometry/trig at all.
> 
> So he is struggling to write his own textbook he can give to the teens he
> is working with.  To that end he needs an app (windoze, cough, cough)
> that will allow him to input an algebraic equation and get out a graph in
> a file format (jpg, etc) that he can then import into the Open Office file
> he is creating.
> 
> I will take credit on weaning him away from Office. :)
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Sean

Here's some more:

Virtual TI Pro
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualti/

Maxima, a Computer Algebra System
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Online Intelligent Graphing Calculators
http://www.webgraphing.com/

Graphing Calculator Demo
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771392.aspx

Runiter Graphing Calculator 3D
http://calculator.runiter.com/graphing-calculator/

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
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