new tricks for an old dog

I’ve wanted for some time to create a notebook to hand out to my math students the first day of class. Its partly to give them an organized resource for the year, and partly to allow me to teach them a systematic way of doing things. (How many of your junior highers entering your math classes insist on doing their math work across the lined page instead of using unlined paper and working form top to bottom?)

Here’s what I have included this year. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

• Quick guide to wxMaxima (open source replacement for Mathematica.)
• An Excel tutorial
• Excel tutorial for matrices (for the Alg2 and above crowd.)
• Cheatsheet with the trig identities (again Alg2 and above.)
• rectangular and polar graphing paper

What else would you add?

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