Introduction to Mathematica for High School Math (for Students and Teachers) #7
Author
Ruth Dover
Title
Introduction to Mathematica for High School Math (for Students and Teachers) #7
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Introduction to Mathematica for High School Math
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Educational Materials
Keywords
Mathematics, education
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http://www.notebookarchive.org/2021-09-6h27br8/
DOI
https://notebookarchive.org/2021-09-6h27br8
Date Added
2021-09-14
Date Last Modified
2021-09-14
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Tutorial 7: Help Me!
Tutorial 7: Help Me!
R. Dover, IMSA
Fortunately, there is lots and lots of help available in Mathematica®. We saw some a little earlier by starting to type and selecting a command or asking for a list of options. In this notebook, we will let you see more so you will begin to use the Help system whenever necessary.
First, look at the items in the Help menu. A couple of options send you to the web, and there are a couple of interesting questions near the bottom: Why the Beep? and Why the Coloring? Hopefully, you should know when to use each of these.
Now for most of the help: In the Help menu, choose Wolfram Documentation. (Move this window to the side so you can see both notebooks.) You can click each topic to see the subtopics. Look around a little.
Now, find and click Visualization and Graphics and then choose Function Visualization. You will see many commands. We will come back to several of these, but for right now, choose Plot.
The format here is standard:
Basic command statements
Details and Options—contains a list of options and more technical info
Examples
Many more categories with various issues and options
Other related commands
Tutorials
Related Guides
Related Links
Version information
Basic command statements
Details and Options—contains a list of options and more technical info
Examples
Many more categories with various issues and options
Other related commands
Tutorials
Related Guides
Related Links
Version information
Clearly, with the number of examples and links, one could spend a long time here. For right now, explore just a little.
Note that at the top of the Documentation Center notebook, there is a Home button as well as Forward/Back buttons. In addition, you can type any command or term into the bar at the top to search.
All of the given examples are "live." That is, you can change them to see what happens or to verify how something works. But fortunately, you cannot mess up the Documentation Center.


Cite this as: Ruth Dover, "Introduction to Mathematica for High School Math (for Students and Teachers) #7" from the Notebook Archive (2021), https://notebookarchive.org/2021-09-6h27br8

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