February 1997, Vol. 3, Issue 6
Spreadsheets, Patterns, and Algebraic Thinking
Don Ploger, Lee Klinger and Michael Rooney
The results of a fifth-grade class using spreadsheets to investigate challenging mathematical topics and outlines an intuitive approach for introducing the concepts of functions and sequences.
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