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At the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) we have developed a series of stand-alone, multi-media computer-based courses designed to teach advanced students mathematics at the secondary-school and college level. The EPGY course software has been designed to be used in those settings where a regular class cannot be offered, either because of an insufficient number of students to take the course or the absence of a qualified instructor to teach the course. In this way it differs from traditional applications of computers in education, most of which are intended to be used primarily as supplements and in conjunction with a human teacher.
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Ravaglia, R., Alper, T., Rozenfeld, M., Suppes, P. (1998). Successful pedagogical applications of symbolic computation. In: Kajler, N. (eds) Computer-Human Interaction in Symbolic Computation. Texts and Monographs in Symbolic Computation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6461-7_5
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