F-Quadratic

• Author(s): Conceição, Ana ; Pereira, José ; Silva, Cátia ; Simão, Cristina
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/2736
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): F-Tool; Educational software; Symbolic computation; Wolfram mathematica; Precalculus; Differential calculus
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English

Description

The article (see http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1105) was first presented in the 1st National Conference on Symbolic Computation in Education and Research, IST Portugal 2012, where distinguished with the Timberlake Award for Best Article by a Young Researcher. On how to work with the CDF format please see http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/. F-Quadratic is a F-Tool (see http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1105), that is, a visual, dynamic, and interactive teaching tool that allow to explore in an innovate fashion some of the main concepts within precalculus and differential calculus at the secondary and university levels (available in the CDF format).