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Recent News
Aug – Dec, 2008
The following articles featuring TinkerPlots have recently been published:

Konold, C., & Lehrer, R. (2008). Technology and mathematics education: An essay in honor of Jim Kaput. In L. English (Ed.), Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education, (2nd edition) (pp.49-72). New York: Routledge.

Konold, C., & Kazak, S. (2008). Reconnecting data and chance. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 2 (1) , Article 1.

Watson, J. M., Fitzallen, N. E., Wilson, K. G., & Creed, J. F. (2008). The representational value of hats. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 14(1), 4-10.

Representational Value of Hats, Page 1
Nov 20, 2008
The latest edition of Techcast at UMass features a podcast about TinkerPlots.
October, 2008
TinkerPlots has won another award, ComputED’s 2008 Education Software Review (EDDIE) Award.
October, 2008
Bill Gerace having retired and moved to NCSU Greensboro, Cliff was appointed the new director of SRRI.
August, 2008
Sibel Kazak completed her 2-year postdoc and returned to Turkey where she is waiting for the final word on which of several university positions there she will assume.

 

Upcoming Events
January 23, 2009
Expected release of new version of Model 1 (Beta 04) with redesigned device-branching and history-object interface.
January 23, 2009
Craig will attend the BostonCHI
Winter 2009 Professional Development Seminars.
April 20-21, 2009
Cliff and Rich Lehrer will lead the work session “Modeling Repeated Measures as an Entrée into Data Analysis” at the NCTM Research Presession in Washington, D.C.
April 23-25, 2009
TinkerPlots demonstrations at the Key Curriculum Press booth at the NCTM national meeting in Washington, D.C.  
May 25-29, 2009
Cliff is an invited participant at the workshop "Probabilistic Models of Cognitive Development” at the Banff International Research Station.
July 10-16, 2009
Cliff and Anthony Harradine will present the paper “Contexts for Highlighting Signal and Noise” at SRTL-6 in Brisbane, Australia.
July 20-21, 2009
Cliff will lead sessions on TinkerPlots at the 3rd summer meeting of the StatSmart project in Melbourne, Australia.
   
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