Raspberry Pie is a delicious treat ...

IT'S ALSO A CREDIT-CARD SIZED COMPUTER THAT IS CAPABLE OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.

Raspberry Pi is an open source miniature (credit card sized) computer.  They were designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation intending to have an easy platform for learning the basics of computing. They have done a great job at that!  If you’re an educator or computery type then please check out the raspberrypi website.

Raspberry Pis can be used somewhat like a very very very very powerful calculator and graphic visualizer for the novice but can be much more than that for the experienced user.  It can be used to visualize 2D and 3D graphics, with a plethora of options.  It can be used to sort and display data from a file if needed.  It solves linear equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, can graph parametric equations, and much more.  It also has a very simple and easy to understand syntax.  This means students will gain some experience with how to accurately follow some rules of syntax without being bogged down with fully learning a software language, our focus will be on the mathematical lessons.

As mentioned each computer is little and depending upon the version you get, has a few USB ports, an ethernet port, SD card slot for the OS, power plug, HDMI plug, and GPIO for connection to the outside world.  We can basically strap them to the back of the monitor, plug a few things in and be ready to go.