Fathom Week 8

JOURNAL (BLOG): What is your impression of Fathom - note three specific points

After using TinkerPlots these past 7 weeks, when I started Fathom I was quite surprised on how similar the two were. By the end of the week, I feel as those Fathom has several attributes that I like better. A great thing that I found for Fathom was that you are able to graph multiple attributes on one side of the axises. This was extremely useful when I completed the activity with the rates and distances between the three vehicles. This was a great way to help students compare attributes in Fathom without having to create several different graphs.

Like TinkerPlots, I thought that Fathom was very user friendly. They did a great job writing tours to help people figure out how to use the different functions. They did a great job walking users through activities to help familiarize them with everything Fathom has to offer. I like how the different activities highlighted each activity and focused on each of them individually.

Another thing that I thought Fathom did well was calculation functions. I thought it was extremely easy to use, and I found it very useful. I liked the different formulas that you are able to do using this function. The way that you could make a recursive formula was easy to understand and compute. There are a lot of possibilities using this function and I think it can be helpful in more than just a statistics or probability class. TinkerPlots seems to be limited to these types of classes, but I feel that Fathom could branch off into different classes.