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| location | Sherwood Park, Canada | |
| age | 53 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 2 months |
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I'm a "retired" junior/senior high math teacher. I now do a lot of one on one tutoring, and take my computer to illustrate concepts where possible. I've never had any formal computer training so I'm piecing together Mathematica knowledge as I read posts and get my questions answered. I appreciate the amazing help I've gotten at this website.
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May 3 |
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Save notebook without including Front End version information Thanks for that advice. I try to keep things simple but that's certainly not a complicated thing to manage! It does seem a bit strange, given the amazing way so many options can be set, that there isn't a way to do this! Thanks again for the suggestion! |
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May 1 |
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Save notebook without including Front End version information I too am very interested in this response, since the gap between releasing a new version of Mathematica and the new version of the CDFPlayer is long. I have students opening multiple notebooks and each time they get the error message. I tried some of the solutions here, but I notice that when I type $Version I get "9.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 20, 2012)" but when I actually look at the text in the file it's 9.0 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit, 64-bit Kernel) (November 20, \ 2012) . So I'm not getting it to work.... |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Arcs of rotation for angles |
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Apr 22 |
accepted | Simulate a simple spinner |
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Apr 22 |
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Simulate a simple spinner Thanks, wow, that's a great spinner. All the answers were so helpful, I chose this as "the answer", but they all taught me some new Mathematica skills, and they all will help with my teaching... |
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Apr 19 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 17 |
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Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data? Thanks for your input, just used that to create a simple math lesson on introductory probability, and this was just what I needed to make it work! |
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Apr 17 |
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Simulate a simple spinner Thanks so much for responding. Some great stuff there! I will admit that I don't in fact know how to incorporate that into my existing spinner. What you've done looks very realistic! Just not sure how to make it work.... |
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Apr 17 |
asked | Simulate a simple spinner |
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Apr 12 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Apr 11 |
accepted | Composing an image with a plot |
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Apr 11 |
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Composing an image with a plot This is really helpful, since it shows a lot of nice ways to massage the imported image, as well as the function to create a quadratic from zeroes and the y value of the vertex. Things like that are very helpful and I don't often think of doing that. |
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Apr 11 |
answered | Adding Math to Plots |
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Apr 9 |
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Composing an image with a plot Wow! Looks fantastic, I'll check that out later today when I have time. This is nice since I could have buttons to show the "guy" and "hoop", take them off once the student gets into the problem. Really nice. I really appreciate seeing solutions like this since I can really connect to the commands being used since they apply directly to my problem. Thanks for your time! |
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Apr 9 |
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Composing an image with a plot Thanks so much, that helps a TON. I'll be using this question in just a few hours, so I can get it to work NOW, and think about some of the ideas you mentioned. I really appreciate the help! |
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Apr 9 |
asked | Composing an image with a plot |
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Mar 27 |
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Illustrating half life Thanks! I had actually seen that, it's excellent. I did wonder though, to create something that was more time "sensitive". In that demonstration, the time slider goes in increments of 1, so things only happen at t = 1, t = 2 , and so on. In theory anyway, suppose you used a half life of 5700 years (Carbon - 14). And suppose the time slider went all the way from 0 to 20000 years. In theory, the whole time you move the slider, there will be some decay happening. Not at all sure how to begin to implement that. It would also illustrate ideas from experimental/theoretical prob. |
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Mar 27 |
asked | Illustrating half life |
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Mar 19 |
accepted | Image Rotation, Line Symmetry |
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Mar 18 |
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Image Rotation, Line Symmetry Thank you! ImageCompose is what I needed. Great answer, I appreciate your input. |
