Create Your Own Wolfram Alpha Widgets

The computational search service Wolfram Alpha offers a neat widget building tool. The  Wolfram Alpha widget builder  will allow anyone to c...

Quickly Compare Two or More Things in Wolfram Alpha

In their 15th anniversary blog post last week, Google mentioned that you can now compare things by simply typing "compare" betwee...

Register Now for the Wolfram Virtual Education Conference

Wolfram, the producers of the popular Wolfram Alpha computational search tool and Wolfram Mathmatica, is hosting a free virtual conference o...

Use Wolfram Alpha to Create a Strong Password

The next time you need to create a strong password try Wolfram Alpha . If you enter "password" or "generate password" in...

Symbolab - A Scientific Equation Search Engine

Symbolab is a new search engine designed for mathematicians and scientists. The search engine is a semantic search engine which means that ...

Two Days of Learning With Dan Meyer

As I mentioned yesterday , this week I'm facilitating some workshops at the Maine School of Science and Math. Last night's keynote w...

Mathematica for Teaching and Student Use

Over the weekend I received an email from Wolfram informing me of a new free training they're offering for learning how to publish usin...

Alpha Maps - Wolfram Alpha Entries on a Map

One of the aspects of Wolfram Alpha that I like is the "fact sheets" that are available for most topics. For example, if I search...

Use the Chrome Browser as a Calculator

One of Wolfram Alpha's fun features is the ability to use it like a calculator for conversions. Type something like "5 miles in fe...

Wolfram Launches a New Education Portal

Wolfram Alpha has offered free lesson plans for a couple of years now. Today, Wolfram announced the launch of the new Wolfram Education Po...

Now Google Graphs - Kind Of

On Monday Google announced that you can now search for a mathematical function and have an interactive graph generated at the top of your s...

Planes Overhead and Other Cool Wolfram Alpha Things

Yesterday, I saw a neat demonstration of Wolfram Alpha on Patrick Higgins's blog. The demo, embedded below, shows you what you happens...

Free Wolfram Alpha Webinars

Next week on September 7th  Wolfram Alpha is hosting a free webinar for teachers . The webinar will provide an overview of how to use Wolfr...

Wolfram Alpha for Your Desktop

A couple of weeks ago I gave a short live demonstration of the computational search engine Wolfram Alpha . As I was wrapping-up the demonstr...

Wolfram Alpha Word Widgets

Wolfram Alpha is known as a computation and statistics search engine, but Wolfram Alpha offers more than that. Two of examples of this are ...

Back to School With Wolfram Alpha

Just in time for the new school year, Wolfram Alpha is hosting a series of webinars for teachers . The purpose of the webinars is to help t...

Seven Search Engines for Students

A major concern that teachers, parents, librarians, and school administrators have whenever their students search for information on the Int...

Wolfram Alpha Launches a Custom Widget Builder

Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha has just launched a new widget building tool. The Wolfram Alpha widget builder will allow anyone ...

Goofram - Google and Wolfram Alpha Side by Side

Goofram is a mash-up of Google Search and Wolfram Alpha search. Enter your search term(s) into Goofram and it will display relevant result...

Wolfram Alpha for Educators - Free Lesson Plans

Wolfram Alpha is one of those resources that contains such a depth of information and range of applications that it can almost be difficult...