Technology Tips: September 2001

In this month's first tip, you will discover that the Table feature is one of the most powerful underutilized tools for graphing functions on a graphing calculator. John Hanna's tip shows you how to use Web plots and gives a nifty program for exploring chaotic behavior in recursively defined functions. In our third feature, John Losse compares two methods of graphing implicitly defined functions: 3D graphing and the “zeros method.” This month's showcased Web site is the Data and Story Library (DASL), housed at Carnegie Mellon University. It is definitely worth a visit!