Materials
The resources on this page will help you understand the movement, its underpinnings and our future direction. If you're interested in getting involved, please let us know and join the discussion on our forum.
Videos
Conrad Wolfram, founder of the CBM initiative, discusses why it's important to rethink maths education, and how adapting it to computers is the future.
Delores Zahner, Director of Test Development, Council for Aid to Education, discusses how higher–order thinking skills can be assessed.
Conrad Wolfram, founder of computerbasedmath.org, and Jon McLoone, content director of computerbasedmath.org, work through some common objections to Computer-Based Maths education.
Conrad Wolfram gives a 25-year vision for fixing maths education, including early experience and examples of CBM's pilot projects.
Beaver Country Day school shares its use of practical tasks to instigate mathematics and modeling using computers.
Ashley Gavin, from Girls Who Code, shares her experience of teaching coding.
Resources you can use today
While we build CBM materials for you to try, here are a number of related activities that aren't CBM but will give a flavour of the technology and activities available in CBM lessons:
Wolfram|Alpha
- Find solutions to crosswords and other word problems. For example, words that will fit " _ _ t _ _ t e".
- Look at geographical data. For example, see a cross section of Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Step-by-step solutions to traditional maths problems. For example, completing the square (requires Pro version).
Wolfram Programming Lab
Wolfram Language
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
- See a range of interactives that Mathematica users have created.
- What structures can be made from triangles?
- Basic gaming algorithms—how to win at tic-tac-toe?
Mathematica
More to explore
Here is a range of interesting problems that can be explored. You can find many more on the Wolfram Blog.
"How to Make a Webcam Intruder Alarm with Mathematica"
"Is the Weather Biased?"
"Musical Archaeology with Mathematica"
"Do Computers Dumb Down Maths Education?"
"Mathematica Tests the St. Swithun's Day Proverb"
"Self-Description"
"25 Best Hangman Words"
"Flag Analysis with Mathematica"
Download the free CBM classroom poster here.
Download the Computer-Based Maths brochure today.