Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day

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Tomorrow is Wolfram|Alpha’s Homework Day. The company is inviting students to submit their homework problems to see if/how Wolfram Alpha can solve them. Should be interesting…

Will you or your students be participating?

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