Wolfram Alpha for Educators

Wolfram Alpha the wondrous computational search engine has just released an educational instance. What this does is show educators how it is being used in the classroom along w/ lesson plans that can be downloaded.



Click here for more info.

For another more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's blog!!

Goofram

Goofram is a new mash-up that combines Google and Wolfram Alpha to create one unique search engine.

After giving it a try I must say that it is rather useful. Of course Wolfram will take a bit longer to search then google and a lot times you won't get results, but that is because of Wolgram Alpha's unique "calculation" search engine.

Below is an example on searching the term, bandwidth.



Give Goofram a try by clicking here.

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is finally here!!! This has been the long awaited computational search engine which is unlike anything ever seen before.

It is a search engine that "solves" problems by doing computations. It's kind of hard to explain w/ out trying it. For example, if you wanted to know the half life of an element type it in here. Or if you wanted to know the difference between home runs hit by your favorite baseball team, WA would be your place of choice.

Wolfram Alpha is ideal to use in schools for the sciences/math curriculum.

Below are screen shots from different areas of interest.

Space/Science



SAT Scores



Click here to give it a try!!