tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550984149903805046.post5721852059158433043..comments2024-01-18T20:07:59.873-05:00Comments on Newton's Minions: What Does That Graph Tell You? (Part I)Tatnall Physicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09436753600662471697noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550984149903805046.post-40101373120239243912011-04-21T22:20:01.616-04:002011-04-21T22:20:01.616-04:00This is a great idea. You could easily create an a...This is a great idea. You could easily create an app that would display a set of points and students would have to find the relationship, and explain the meaning of slope/area in each. I can't imagine this could be too hard. Perhaps you could program it in webassign?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550984149903805046.post-36858044545350681552011-04-20T07:49:57.877-04:002011-04-20T07:49:57.877-04:00I haven't jumped into the twitt-o-sphere. May...I haven't jumped into the twitt-o-sphere. Maybe this summer? That sounds like a cool idea. I also really like the idea of posting plotted points and a description of the situation, and having them practice picking an appropriate fit curve. ...too many quadratics for exponential growth or decay make me twitch!Tatnall Physicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09436753600662471697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550984149903805046.post-15752298158688760182011-04-19T22:08:23.384-04:002011-04-19T22:08:23.384-04:00I love this. In a couple of scichats on twitter (t...I love this. In a couple of scichats on twitter (tuesdays, 9pm—btw, are you on Twitter?), a few of us have discussed adding an archive of interesting graphs (the keeling curve comes to mind) to the What Questions do You Have Science Posterous. Basically, I'd like to have a big archive of graphs (like these above) for students to practice interpreting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com