Timeline for Is there any advantage of plotting graphs using traditional paper and pencil method?
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| Aug 26, 2016 at 6:37 | answer | added | NiloCK | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 2:33 | comment | added | DavidButlerUofA | Also, in my experience, students who have only ever used a calculator/computer to construct graphs just simply do not know what graphs ought to look like. I'm sure it's possible to develop this instinct even if you don't draw them by hand, but I think it will happen more naturally. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 2:32 | comment | added | DavidButlerUofA | I may form this into a proper answer later, but I don't have the documented research you ask for. Anyway, I do think that plotting individual points quickly becomes tedious, and if you want a precise graph then software does the job. But I think students need to know what graphs ought to look like and be able to sketch the general shape without plotting many points at all. This sort of thinking will help them solve problems that don't need the specifics that software might give them. They'll just KNOW what to expect. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 1:53 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | John Coleman | There is almost nothing in undergraduate mathematics which can't be done better by computers. Why stop with graphing? Is there any point in teaching integration by hand when Maple does it better? Why bother to teach matrix multiplication? Even the ability to produce proofs in abstract algebra has been (to a large extent) automated. Why not discard the entire curriculum? My answer: the computer can't understand it for you. Hand-graphing is a tool for gaining understanding. The fact that it is an inferior technology isn't relevant. Running is slower than driving -- but it builds muscles. | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 3:25 | answer | added | James S. Cook | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 0:36 | answer | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 20:58 | history | edited | J W |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | Mafuyai M.Yaks | Documented research on students' ability of choose reasonable scales, plot data correctly, determine slopes and intercepts correctly, connect information from graph with the theory behind the graph. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 19:41 | comment | added | Daniel Hast | What information about students' graphing ability are you interested in? | |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 19:16 | history | asked | Mafuyai M.Yaks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |