More about Desmos later. You can read more here: completemaths. Autograph 5 software is now FREE. It is hands down, the best software on the market for making graphs and grids to put into your worksheets, presentations, and assessments. Desmos is primarily a calculator. Yes, you can add screenshots of graphs or grids from Desmos into your document, but you are not going to get as many options for setting up your axes and the overall look of the graph as you do in Autograph.
Autograph can do some calculations for you, too. For example, you can easily find the points of intersection of two functions. You can quickly find the area under a curve or the volume of a solid of revolution. Both are excellent teaching tools. To be honest, the only time I use Autograph as a teaching tool is when I am teaching area between curves or volumes of solids of revolution in my Calculus class. The turtle allows you to watch the graph appear slowly.
Below you can see the volume of revolution appears slowly because I used the Slow Plot feature. Yes, as you can see in the gif above, I graphed that parabola in 3 dimensions. I hid the z-axis and but plotted the parabola as a 2D equation. It gets quite addicting once you start playing with graphs in 3 dimensions. Why have you never heard of Autograph? Well, only you can answer that question. The original creator is a former math teacher who worked with a computer software engineer to make the software.
I met him at a workshop that I attended in when I worked in Switzerland. This was long before Desmos came along. Desmos now is a household name in most math classrooms, but rarely do I meet anyone who has heard of Autograph.
Autograph has features that I don't use often, but they are definitely worth checking out:. For example, you can graph in a complex plane and you can plot and calculate and graph one-variable statistics! The company that owns Autograph has a youtube channel with some helpful instructional videos.
Have you tried Autograph? Download the Mac free trial. Take a look at Autograph 4 in depth and see how it brings maths topics to life, and the great resources to show you how to do it. Major make-over! Many new mathematical objects in 2D and 3D, with associated list of 'attributes' which can be used in calculations. Ground-breaking new 'Argand Diagram' page, enabling complex numbers to be explored through dynamic objects.
See the new introductory video , 4 page summary and manual extension. Simple and consistent multi-page interface, no command line, just select objects and right-click, so you can concentrate on the maths! Famous 3D interface lines, planes, volumes of revolution and greatly admired section on probability and statistics.
Teacher-friendly variable step constant controller. Visualise maths in 2D and 3D at the click of a mouse Autograph is the only software to let you visualise maths in 2D and 3D with ease. Perfect for Interactive Whiteboards and PCs - or control from your Tablet or iPad Autograph allows you to explore secondary and college maths dynamically and with ease - no matter what the size of screen.
No long term tuition or preparation needed Every maths teacher in your school can learn to use Autograph within the hour. Perfect for the Classroom The intuitive interface for both teachers and students allows you and the class to focus on maths - there's no programming.
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