The Geometer's Sketchpad, Exploring Precalculus

The Sketchpad activities in this collection give students the opportunity to directly experience, through dynamic visualization and manipulation, the topics covered in Precalculus. Students: - transform functions dynamically - view and modify entire families of functions—polynomial, exponential, logistic, and more - build parametric functions, and manipulate vectors and matrices - discover the relationship between rectangular and polar coordinates - make complex numbers come alive on the coordinate plane - finish with a dynamic, visual introduction to the main concepts of calculus.