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Give it a Spin!

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Summary:
One of the MFAQ (= Most Frequent Asked Questions) after workshops or lectures on the usage of modern technologies like the TI-family, DERIVE, MS-EXCEL or others for maths education in Secondary Schools is how to find problems and tasks for exercises and assess-ment. Many of the more experienced teachers have a collection of problems of their own and it is very understandable that they don´t want to throw all their treasures away and start again like at the very begin of their career as a teacher. I was and still am in the same situation. My standard answer is: you don´t have to change eve-rything, take your problem collection and try to achieve another point of view. Then in many cases you will be able to give the problems a spin into the right direction and thus they will adopt a new quality, focus on another aim as usual, open new insights or just let it read a bit uncommon.