This is a set of 11 Maple lessons
for high school Trigonometry, developed by Gregory Moore
of Orange Coast College. The lessons can also supplement a course
in Precalculus or Calculus.
They are designed so you can present each topic as
you would during a normal lecture but using Maple as the main presentation
tool. The students do not have to understand Maple syntax to benefit
from the lessons.
With these Maple lessons, you can carry a topic far
beyond what is possible on the blackboard. You can generate a new
example or diagram instantly just by changing a few values in the
worksheet.
You can show more interesting examples than you could
on the board, where the examples always had to be planned to work
out "nice". Maple computes the dirty work, so the class
can focus on the thinking steps.
"Without the Maple software, we would have to spend weeks generating the equations of motion for every experiment. Then the chances that we did it right would basically be near zero. There would always be a mistake somewhere. It is very difficult to set up a dynamic motion model by hand." - Jean-Claude PiedBeouf, Ph.D Manager of Robotics, Canadian Space Agency
"Its very good - highly accurate and easy to use. The speed of Maple allows me to change equations and quickly reintegrate them into the application, so more possibilities can be explored to achieve the precise effect desired." Shawn Neely, Senior R & D Director for PDI/Dreamworks
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