If you or your kids are preparing for an advanced math or science course, you’re going to need a graphing calculator. These handy machines can process complex calculations (and simple ones), including ...

Young people these days live most of their lives online, so why shouldn’t they be plotting graphs and performing advanced calculations there as well? For the first time this spring, students taking ...

(CNNMoney) A glimmer of hope has arrived for parents tired of having to buy their high school students an overpriced calculator. Smarter Balanced, which administers school proficiency tests in 15 ...

The Smarter Balanced test group announced today that it has partnered with Desmos, a company that created a free online graphing calculator that is giving Texas Instruments a run for its money. As of ...

Microsoft is adding a graphing mode to the Windows 10 calculator. The company made the calculator open-sourced on GitHub earlier this month and has received over thirty suggestions from contributors ...

Looking at the Texas Instruments TI-92 mathematics instructional tool, itís easy to see why both students and teachers like it so much. For students who grew up handling video game controllers , the ...

As your kids get older, that school supply list may get shorter, but not necessarily cheaper. One item that can cause sticker shock for parents of middle and high school students is a specialized ...

“It’s hard to believe, but my students were among the first in the world to do it,” gushes middle school math teacher Cathy Yenca. “And after two test runs prior to testing day, there really weren’t ...

One thing that seems clear is that, with technology available that is free and powerful and hardware-agnostic, technology that previously has ruled the ed-tech roost can’t survive for much longer. I’m ...

Yesterday, Google announced that you could now use their search engine as a graphing calculator. Just type in the function, or several functions separated by commas, and you get a graph. Why? Because ...

The graph below has a turning point (3, -2). Write down the nature of the turning point and the equation of the axis of symmetry. For the parabola \(y=(x+6)(x-4)\) determine the coordinates and nature ...

One of my favorite demos at Disrupt NYC was from an education startup called Desmos that is reinventing the whiteboard to make it browser-based and interactive (watch their Disrupt video below). One ...