C12 Interview: Ilan Samson of QAMA Calculator

• recorded: July 27th 2012

[mp3-jplayer tracks="C12 Interview: Ilan Samson of QAMA Calculator@http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/C12InterviewIlanSamsonOfQamaCalculator/C12InterviewIlanSamsonQamaCalculator.mp3" dload="y"]Enter QAMA, truly one of the coolest, most thoughtful, welcome bits of ed tech to hit math classrooms in a very long time. Created by Ilan Samson, a retired physicist and serial inventor, to address exactly the problems I described above, the QAMA calculator forces students to provide a reasonable estimate for their answer before it will output the exact answer.