Overview

Merrilyn Goos has a rare gift for making maths relevant and interesting for secondary school students.

A superb maths teacher and an outstanding lecturer at The University of Queensland, Dr Goos and her pre-service DipEd and BEd students have developed an exciting and innovative series of technology enriched activities for Australian upper and lower secondary maths students.

With the rapid introduction of technologies such as computers, graphics calculators and the internet into secondary maths classrooms, Techno Maths meets a growing need for challenging and practical investigations which have been trialled and proven with teachers and students in Queensland classrooms.

A CD accompanying the book contains all the activities, together with any spreadsheet files and programs mentioned in the text.

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Table of Contents

Lower secondary

• The murdered mammoth mystery - Linear, reciprocal, exponential functions
• How good was Bob Beamon? - Linear functions
• Beware the 'Braer'! - Linear & quadratic functions, maps and bearings

Upper secondary

• Graphical queues - Queuing systems
• Basketball maths - Exponential and polynomial functions
• Understanding composite functions - Composition of functions, chain rule
• The 'Love Bug' - Exponential functions
• Planet logarithm - Logarithmic functions
• Designing a Piemaker - Optimisation using derivatives
• Numerical integration - Integration
• Functional tiles - Periodic and exponential functions, integration
• Gaelic football - Matrices
• Fibonacci sequences and the Golden Ratio - Sequences