Represent and solve equations graphically.
It's how great artists paint, how great mathematicians solve equations".
Don't want to solve equations, Don't want to go to bed.
When children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn.
He argues that excessive use of whole-class teaching might mean pupils spending so long being lectured about mathematics that they never get to solve equations for themselves.
They include Conrad Wolfram, who worked on Mathematica, a program which allows users to solve equations, visualise mathematical functions and much more.
"I have heard that during the regents math exam, kids go to the bathroom and use their cellphones, which have calculators built in, to solve equations". said Anne Manwell, who teaches molecular biology and research methods at Stuyvesant.
A suite of programs called ImagiMath (www.imagiworks.com), $39.95, includes ImagiCalc, a full-function calculator; ImagiGraph, for plotting graphs and even animating them; and ImagiSolve, a math worksheet that helps solve equations with a tap of the stylus.
While at M.I.T., he worked with Dr. Vannevar Bush on one of the early calculating machines, the "differential analyzer," which used a precisely honed system of shafts, gears, wheels and disks to solve equations in calculus.
To make perfect weather predictions, we would not only have to account for all of those molecules, but we would also need to solve equations for all 100 tredecillion of them at once.
But in a few years time, I'll have to start helping my young sons with their maths homework – I'm secretly hoping that, by then, it will involve playing Angry Birds or Left 4 Dead, or designing an Android app to solve equations.
