There are some big discussions happening at the moment in education.  Australian Curriculum, standardised testing, year 7 transition, public...

There are a host of ways to find the first derivative on the CAS calculator and to solve calculus problems quickly.  Sometimes I think exam ...

When finding fog(x) the CAS calculator does a good job of simplifying algebraic steps, often to the point of making traditional questions tr...

The 3CD course requires knowledge of domain, range, co-domain and inverse functions. The classpad can handle these in a number of ways. The...

The factorial(!) button is found in the soft keyboard under the abc tab (hit the up arrow next to 'z' and the '1' turns into...

Ok .. AP's and GP's are now a thing of the past (what?? huh?? when did that happen - in 8A of course!).. we're now onto applic...

Those of you attempting Exercise 8A without students with a thorough grounding in AP's & GP's in year 10 will be scratching yo...

There has been some confusion about how to define variables on the classpad in my class. Here is what we have discovered. If we use a vari...

There are lots of ways of solving trigonometric equations on the Classpad but I have avoided using Trisolve as it takes away the thinking as...

Ok. Absolute value - easy enough, to take the absolute value of a number, make it positive if it wasn't already. easy peasy... ... until...

Teaching students to solve equations with the balancing method can be difficult as many different skills are required. Collecting like terms...

During exams last year we noticed that those who had CAS calculators were not using them for Trigonometry problems. During summer school we...

There are a number of ways of finding where two lines intersect. Let's solve this example. "Where do the equations y=x and y=-2x+3 ...

I posed the following question to my year 10's in order to continue our learning of the new calculator. It is an example of solving a p...

Today in class we looked at how to produce a Histogram using the list editor. A Histogram is used when data is continuous (there is no gap b...

As I play with the calculator things become a little more obvious. It was good fun with my year 10's showing them how to find the mean ...

Other educationWA articles on CAS calculators: General My first use of the CAS calculator Click here Naming conventions Click here How ...