SimCalc: Accelerating students' engagement with the mathematics of change

Jeremy Roschelle, J. Kaput, W. Stroup

This chapter discusses the research findings and design principles guiding our approach, with specific attention to our first software product, “MathWorlds.” MathWorlds provides dynamic, direct manipulation graphs, piecewise definable functions, and animated cartoon worlds to engage elementary, middle, and high school students in qualitative and quantitative reasoning about the relationships among position, velocity, and acceleration in complex contexts.

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Research Areas

Learning Environments
Technology Development

Keywords 

calculus
microworld
simulation

Citation 

Roschelle, J., Kaput, J., & Stroup, W. (2000). SimCalc: Accelerating students' engagement with the mathematics of change. In M. J. Jacobson & R. B. Kozma (Eds.), Innovations in science and mathematics education: Advanced designs for technologies of learning (pp. 47-75). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

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