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Announcement: Math Course

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From: Milt Petruk
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:50
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Jan 20, 1993

The Provincial Government of Alberta, in conjunction with the University of
AlbertaÕs Canadian Center for the Development of Instructional Computing,
is pleased to announce the completion of Level 4 Mathematics.  This is a
self-contained full year senior level high school mathematics course
delivered totally online and stored on CD-ROM.

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Level 4 Mathematics CD-ROM is a complete course in grade 12 university
entrance-level math.  The equivalent course, when taught in the ÒnormalÓ
classroom is more than 125 hours of instruction.  The CD-ROM version
occupies just under 60 mb and  runs on any Macintosh with 2.5 mb with
System 6.0.x and 4mb with System 7.x.  It displays on a 9 inch monochrome
screen.

The course consists of 7 units, Polynomial Functions, Exponential Functions
& Logarithms, Sequences, Series & Limits, Trigonometry, Conic Sections,
Statistics and Permutations & Combinations.  Each unit is divided up into
topics (the number of topics in a unit varies) and each topic is divided up
into several objectives.

Students use a menu-driven front end to display a choice of units.  They
select the unit of choice by clicking on it.  This displays a choice of
topics for that parti
on it.  Students can then choose to take a tutorial on that topic or be
tested on it by entering an interactive test bank dealing with that topic. 


In addition to tutorials which are loaded with animated graphics
three-dimensional movies and interactive learning sequences, students have
access to explorers in four of the units,  Polynomial Functions,
Exponential Functions & Logarithms,  Trigonometry, and Conic Sections. 
Explorers allow students to vary the parameters of equations in each of
these units and instantly observe the effects in a graph window.

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Further details can be obtained from:

Dr. Milt Petruk, Director
The Canadian Center for the Development of Instructional Computing
Room 3-102 Education North
Faculty of Education
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5
Telephone (403) 492-3935  Fax (403) 492-3179 

or by 

Internet: milt_petruk@crame.educ.ualberta.ca

Dr. Petruk will also be presenting at the Florida Educational Technology
Conference in Tampa, Feb. 2-5, 1993.  He will be available to meet with any
interested parties.

:o)

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