Friend or foe? Examining CAS use in mathematics research

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 229-238

  Bunt, Andrea ^a   Terry, Michael ^a   Lank, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer algebra systems; Mathematical problem solving

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE STUDY; WORK PRACTICES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 84892461636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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