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Mathcad Prime & The Digital Natives
As the Academic Program Manager for Mathcad my job runs in seasonal cycles. Summer is the busy season for teacher and student workshops. PTC sponsors a large number of workshops through its Corporate...
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A Simple Trick for Increasing Readability
Recently, I have been working on a Mathcad Prime Programming tutorial for middle and high school students. I think that taking full advantage of Mathcad to develop students’ computational thinking...
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Smoots and Smonths (Part 1)
Mathcad’s unit handling capabilities and flexibility with units have always been one of the product’s most liked characteristics. I personally find Mathcad’s unit capabilities to be both a source of...
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Smoots and Smonths (Part 2)
Last week I came across an amusing Tweet from a colleague referencing a discussion on Reddit Math: I couldn’t resist checking this out in Mathcad Prime. True enough! The quantity 10! seconds is...
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Engineering for a Better Tomorrow: Breakthrough in Water Treatment Technology
Clean water. Most of us take it for granted. However, in many communities in the developing world access to clean water is not guaranteed. On a daily basis millions live without clean water due to the...
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Go FIRST-y, not Hungry
In about a week I will be in St. Louis for the FIRST Championship Event at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO. I am really pumped. If you have never been to a FIRST Robotics competition (there are...
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Teaching and Learning Corner: Using Include Worksheets
As a teenager I was, I realize now, a terrible learner. I attribute this fact to having developed the wrong priorities – I am not sure it was entirely my fault. Success was measured by test scores....
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Teaching and Learning Corner: Mathcad and Constructivism (Part 1)
One of Mathcad’s key capabilities as a desktop tool is the documentation of intellectual property. Many of our users leverage Mathcad’s mathematical, graphical, and text capabilities to capture the...
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Mathcad Lessons from/for FIRST Robotics
Over the last year I have represented PTC on behalf of Mathcad at many FIRST Robotics events. The 2012 season culminated during the last week of April at the World Championships in St. Louis. It was...
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Little things I’ve learned to love about Mathcad Prime
Joining PTC in June of 2010, I arrived in the Mathcad Unit at a time of transition. Mathcad 15.0 was released during my onboarding process. Mathcad Prime 1.0 was progressing rapidly towards its January...
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Getting Started with Mathcad Prime
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