A valuable resource for using the Web to promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. It is filled with instructional strategies and an expansive set of activities that cover a broad array of mathematics topics spanning from prealgebra through calculus.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
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Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Using Critical Thinking Skills in Mathematics.
2: Using Primary Sources.
The Primary Source Sites.
Absolute Value of a Linear Function.
Airport Pattern Simulator.
The Ambiguous Case.
Amtrak Reservations and MapQuest.
Angles in Parallel Lines.
Area Probability.
Ask Jeeves: What Is the Distance?.
Auto Loan Monthly Payment Calculator.
Average Rate of Change and Derivatives.
Average Weekly Salaries.
Ball Parks.
Bank Interest Rates.
Bart Schedule Animation.
Baseball Millionaires.
Baseball Time Machine.
Bath Time with Archimedes.
The Billiards Simulation.
Binomial Distribution.
Birthday Problem.
Body Mass Calculator.
Braking and Stopping Distances.
Cam's Java Web Counter Applet: Dynamic Counter Applet.
Cartesian Coordinates.
Cereal Box Problem Simulation.
Changing Border Line.
CIA Map Collection.
Circle Solver.
Circle Theorem 2.
Circle Zap.
Classic Fallacies.
The Cliff-Hanger.
CNET Download.com.
Complex Numbers in Polar Form.
Components for r.
Conic Sections as the Locus of Perpendicular Bisectors.
Consumer Price Indexes.
Copy Cat.
Dave's Short Trig Course.
Density Lab.
Determine the Derivative of an Unknown Function.
Distance Formula.
Edmunds Used Car Prices.
Effects of A, B, C, D on the Graph of y = a(sin bx + c) + d.
Eleven Times.
Euclid's Elements—Book 1.
Exponential Functions.
Factor Tree.
Fibonacci Sequence.
Figure and Ratio of Area.
Finding the Area Under a Curve.
Finding the Length of a Curve.
First and Second Derivative of f(x) = a + bx + cx2 + dx3.
