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Bob Francis’s workshop on using spreadsheets as an aid in teaching numerical methods
Having struggled to hold the interest of my students with this topic a few weeks earlier and feeling short of inspiration, I found this workshop very refreshing
Bob’s enthusiastic attitude was infectious and he had evidently done so much preparation to produce an interactive teaching and learning aid. The concepts became clear visually ( how I had struggled to draw cobweb and staircase diagrams clearly on the whiteboard! ) encouraging the students to experiment with different starting values to find convergence.
Bob gave us all a CD with other useful programs as well. Having seen how he set it all up I have been inspired to try the same techniques with other topics and look forward to trying them out with my students this coming year.