My name is David MacDonald and I'd like to thank you for choosing to utilize this activity!  It has been constructed for a "Computers in Education" course  which I am involved with at St. Francis Xavier Universitiy in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.  Please contact me if you have any comments or suggestions.

Any teacher who requires the answers to this activity can please feel free to contact me by e-mail and I will try to respond to your request as soon as possible.
 

Purpose:  An on-line group and/or individual activity to build upon the modeling and function                 fundamentals that were introduced in class.  Also for students to gain experience using mathematics computer applications and the Internet.

Prior Knowledge:

• Should have attended the previous classes when modeling was introduced.
• Basic computer and Internet skills
• Must have attended the introductory lab on Secondary Math Lab TOOLKIT, unless there is previous experience.

• Secondary Math Lab TOOLKIT
• Computer - 486/33MHz or higher
• Windows 3.1,3.11, 95, or DOS 5.0
• 12 MB of RAM
• VGA Monitor
• Internet Access
• Diskettes
• Printer/Paper(not totally necessary)

• Ideally, each student will have their own computer station to work with, if this is not possible, groups of two to four could work together.
• Groups larger than four at one computer usually leads to distraction and may result in some students being left out of the activity.
• Students can feel free to use what ever resources they have available to them (texts, class notes, calculators....) to aid them in the activity, but they must use the Math Lab TOOLKIT to answer the questions.
• The teacher should monitor the activity to make sure the students are on task, i.e. "not surfing the Net", and help with technical questions.
• Students can also feel free to ask their peers for help.
• Any student who has the Math Lab TOOLKIT on their personal computer will be able to access the activity at any time and if necessary, complete it at home.
• Students should e-mail the teacher to get feedback on what they thought of this type of activity.