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The author reports on two major projects at the Technical Education Research Centers, which involve using technology to enhance the ability of students to construct and test their own theories. One project involved system dynamics and the numerical solutions of differential equations, wherein students of age 14 and older were able to set up and solve this class of problems without the need for calculus. In the other project, a system for thinking about record-oriented data is presented.
This report is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation grants MDR-8550373, MDR-8855617, and MDR-8855644, donations from Apple Computer and others. Any opinions, findings, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation or other donors.
The author reports here work from many contributors at TERC, especially Ricardo Nemirovsky, William Barclay, and Chris Hancock.
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Tinker, R.F. (1993). Modelling and Theory Building: Technology in Support of Student Theorizing. In: Ferguson, D.L. (eds) Advanced Educational Technologies for Mathematics and Science. NATO ASI Series, vol 107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02938-1_3
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