Florence S. Gordon's Recent Articles
Feel free to download any of the following articles that have links to read final draft versions; if you want to read the final articles, you can likely get them through InterLibrary Loan or perhaps from the journals themselves (though often for a fee).
1. Buffonery in the Math Classroom, (submitted).
2. Exploring Log Functions with Fractional Bases, The MathMATYC Educator, (to appear).
3. Visualizing and Understanding Exponential and Logarithmic Identities Using Dynamic Software, The MathMATYC Educator, 2024.
4. Using Moving Averages to Find Trends in Data, The MathMATYC Educator, 2023.
5. Exploring Tangentoidal Functions, MathAMATYC Educator, 2023.
6. Visualizing and Understanding P-Values in Hypothesis Testing Using Dynamic Software, MathAMATYC Educator, 2022.
7. Incorporating
Statistics into College Algebra, Int’l J of Tech
in Math Education, 2021.
8.
Visualizing
and Understanding Sampling Distributions with Dynamic Software, Int’l J of
Tech in Math Education, 2019.
9. Visualizing and Understanding Regression and Correlation Using Dynamic Software, Int'l J of Tech in Math Education, 2018.
11. Visualizing
and Understanding Confidence Intervals Using Dynamic Software, Math
and Computer Education, 2016.
12. Integrating
Statistics Into College Algebra to Serve the Needs of Students in Biology,
in Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Processes,
Models, Assessment, and Directions , Ledder, Glenn, Jenna Carpenter, and Tim Comar, Eds., MAA Notes, 2013.
13. Why
Conceptual Understanding is Important in College Algebra, Vision
Potential, 2011.
14. Can There Be Calculus After Reform College Algebra?, Vision Potential,
2011.
15. On the Statistics of a
Function, Int'l J of Math Education in Science and Technology, 2009.
16. Visualizing and Understanding Probability and Statistics:
Graphical Simulations Using Excel,
PRIMUS, 2009.
17. Using the Sum of the Squares,
Mathematics and Computer Education, 2008.
18. What Does the Slope Mean?, Primus, 2007.
19. Discovering the Fundamental Theorem
of Calculus using Data Analysis, The
Mathematics Teacher, 2007.
20. What Does Conceptual
Understanding Mean? The
AMATYC Review, 2006.
21. Assessing What
Students Learn: Reform versus Traditional Precalculus and Follow-up
Calculus, in A Fresh Start for Collegiate
Mathematics: Rethinking the Road Toward Calculus, Nancy
Baxter Hastings, ed, MAA Notes, 2006.
22. The Functioning in the Real World Project, in A Fresh
Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Preparation for Calculus, Nancy
Baxter Hastings, Ed., MAA Notes, 2006.
23. Deriving the Linear
Regression Equations Using Algebra, Mathematics and Computer
Education, 2004.
24. Deriving the
Quadratic Regression Equations Using Algebra, Mathematics and Computer
Education, 2004.
25. Using Data Analysis to
Motivate Derivative Formulas, Mathematics and Computer Education,
2002.
26. Using Data Analysis to Discover the
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, PRIMUS, 2003.
27. Assessing What
Students Learn: Mathematical Modeling vs. Traditional Precalculus, Proc
13th Int'l Conf on Tech in Collegiate Math, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
28. A Spoonful of Medicine
Makes the Mathematics Go Down, AMATYC Review , 2002.
30. Preparing
Students Mathematically for the Twenty First Century, Proc 4th Int'l Conf
on Mathematics Education, 2000.
31. Using
Real-World Data in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Proc 11th
Int'l Conf on Tech in Collegiate Math, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
32. Functioning
in the Real World: A PreCalculus Experience. The Math Modeling/
PreCalculus Reform Project, in Exemplary
Programs in Introductory College Mathematics, Susan
Lenker, Ed., Annenberg/CPB INPUT Competition,
MAA Notes, 1999.
33. Linking
Mathematics and Physics via a Classroom Demonstration, PRIMUS, 1999.
Last Modified August, 2024.