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• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Scope of this essay
  • Historical remarks
  • Educational implications
  • Pedagogical principles
• Experience at Western
  • Engineering mathematics
  • Graduate mathematics
  • Logistics
  • Research and scientific computation
  • Other projects at other schools
• Gung Ho! Enthusiasm at work
  • Our anticipations
• What we hadn't thought of
  • Game-playing students
  • Cheating
  • Obstructionism
  • Plug-and-chug is pleasant
  • Nonstandard calculators
  • Textbook lies or discrepancies
  • Unread documentation
  • Calculator as exercise equipment
• More profound effects
  • Checking results
  • Pedagogical use of bugs and limitations
  • What is a proof?
  • Concrete versus abstract.
  • Algorithmic mathematics
  • Conditioning
  • Synergetic motivation
  • Scientific computation and dynamical systems
  • Expansion of student vocabulary
  • The Lambert W function
• What not to do, or The Easy Way Out
• The important parts: animation, interaction, and programming
  • Animation
  • Interaction
  • Programming assignments
  • Manufacturing skepticism
• Speculation
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• About this document ...

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Rob Corless
Mon Jun 12 17:07:22 PDT 1995