<div>Yes, My experience with mathpad is as a basic math program for elementary school students and/or students who are working on basic math problems, i.e., add, subtract, divide, etc. I have not seen it used for equations and/or formula type math problems.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Gaeir Dietrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdietrich@htctu.net">gdietrich@htctu.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One of our CCCs had a student (quad, I think) use MathTalk with Scientific Notebook (and Dragon, of course), and it apparently worked out extremely well. Unfortunately, I have heard of more failures than successes—although not because of the technology! In my experience, it helps if the student is already a proficient Dragon user. When a student tries to learn Dragon and MathTalk and Scientific Notebook all from scratch, it requires real dedication and extreme patience.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 08, 2010 9:32 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Athen] Math Talk and Math Pad</span></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></p>
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