Abstract
This paper describes a tutor which teaches students trigonometric problem solving. We first discuss approaches others have adopted for teaching mathematics and comment on their usefulness in trigonometry. We later present a task analysis of trigonometry, based on an experiment we conducted. We then present our approach to teach different categories of problems in trigonometry.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Anderson, JR. The Architecture of Cognition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1983.
Anderson, JR, Boyle, CF, and Yost, G. The Geometry Tutor. In Joshi, A (ed), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, pp.1–7, 1985.
Matz, M. Towards a Process Model for High School Algebra Errors. In Sleeman, D and Brown, JS (eds), Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Academic Press, London, pp. 25–50, 1982.
Nathan, MJ, Kintsch, W, and Lewis, C. Tutoring Word Algebra. Technical Report No. 88-12, University of Colorado, Institute of Cognitive Science, 1988.
Nathan, MJ, Johl, P, Kintsch, W, and Lewis, C. An Unintelligent Tutoring System for Solving Word Algebra Problems. In Bierman, D, Breuker, J, Sandberg, J (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Education: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on AI and Education, Amsterdam, Netherlands, IOS Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1989.
Anderson, JR, Reiser, BJ. The LISP tutor. Byte, 4(10), pp. 159–175.
Singley, MK, Anderson, JR, Gevins, JS and Hoffmann, D. The Algebra Word Problem Tutor. In Bierman, D, Breuker, J, Sandberg, J (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Education: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on AI and Education, Amsterdam, Netherlands, IOS Publishers, 1989.
Weaver, CA, and Kintsch, W. The Conceptual Structure of Word Algebra Problems. Technical Report No. 88-11, Institute of Cognitive Science. University of Colorado, USA.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1990 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Rajan, P., Patil, P., Anjaneyulu, K., Srinivas, P. (1990). The trigonometry tutor. In: Ramani, S., Chandrasekar, R., Anjaneyulu, K.S.R. (eds) Knowledge Based Computer Systems. KBCS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 444. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018376
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018376
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-52850-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-47168-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive