Session finale
The Education session at ACA 2009 was filled with interesting talks. The variety of speakers inspired us to organize a discussion on
What constitutes a good CAS task?
This discussion followed France Caron’s keynote address (talk 22) and was scheduled on the last morning of the conference.
Interested participants contributed to this finale by sending us one or two power point slides that provided an example of a good CAS task with comments on
- the type and characteristics of students with which this task has been (or could be) used
- the wording of the task
- what it requires the students to do (in terms of math and CAS functionality)
- why it qualifies as a "good CAS task"
We then assembled the slides received as a quick presentation and launched the discussion...
“What constitutes a good CAS task?”: part of the resulting blackboard