Final Project Page
Final Project
for
Marna Kitzmiller
EdPsy 387
email: marnak@cin.net
Thank you for coming to my Final Project Page. I have developed a math tutorial using a program called Mathematica. This particular tutorial discusses transformations of sine and cosine waves. It is intended to be used in Advanced Algebra of Trigonometry classes. If I find this form of tutorial to be helpful, I will develop similar tutorials for the parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.
If you like what you see here, or if you don't, please respond by e-mail. I welcome any comment, request, suggestion, and even criticism.
Mathematica is a powerful integrated technical computing system. I used it to develop the tutorial because of its ability to quickly show changes in graphs. For more information, click on the Mathematica button below.
Documents written using Mathematica are called "notebooks". MathReader is a viewer for notebook documents created with Mathematica. MathReader allows you to display and print Mathematica notebooks, but does not allow one to change the graphs. For more information, including how to download MathReader, click on the MathReader button below.
At the beginning of the tutorial you will find a short self-test to assess your understanding of sinusiods. Don't worry! There is only one question, the answer is given, and it's not graded. At the end of the tutorial, there is a similar test.
This tutorial was developed as an interactive tutorial. I wanted each student to be able to chose his/her own numbers and observe the changes in the graphs. I realize, though, that not all students have access to Mathematica. As a result, I have developed two versions of the tutorial.
The first version is the Mathematica version. It is fully interactive. If you already have Mathematica installed on your computer, you are able to use this version. The second version is for the students who has Math Reader installed on his/her computer. (For more information on Mathematica or MathReader, click on the appropriate button above.)
When you have worked through the tutorial, please return to this site to complete the survey below.
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Last updated: 15 December 2000