The Trail of Dots in a Table of Contents
This is a tutorial for making the “trail of dots” in a table of contents in Microsoft Word. This includes a YouTube video tutorial.
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Author: busynessgirl
Year in Review 2009
I’m about to leave on a five-day mental reboot: no computer, no Internet, no cell phone, and lots of sunshine and pleasure reading. For the last month I’ve been feeling kind of drained of energy and motivation, and...
Read MoreTeaching Math with Technology (Discussion Panel)
While I was at Wolfram Alpha Homework Day, I participated in a Panel Discussion about the Myths about Teaching with Technology. The panel ran 30 minutes and was mediated by Elizabeth Corcoran. There were three of us (all women,...
Read MoreCan we Teach Students to Understand Math Tests?
A few weeks ago, I gave a test where the grades were less than stellar. Whenever this happens, I try to sit down and reflect on whether the poor test grades were a result of something I did differently in class, a poorly written...
Read MoreThe Projects Get BETTER
The second unit in Math for Elementary Teachers (MathET) is on numeration systems and operations on whole numbers. Again, the students had to complete a “learning project” for the unit. Some blogged, some mapped...
Read MoreThe Rules of the Brain
Do you ever feel like you’re on “auto pilot”? Or that you’ve lost the ability to learn new things? John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and professor at The University of Washington and...
Read MoreHow to Study for a Math Test
The Fall 2009 Calculus class at Muskegon Community College was tasked (by me) with learning how to study for a math test and then making presentations or videos to help other students. The students started by doing their own...
Read MoreMy Interview at Wolfram Alpha HomeworkDay
Believe it or not, it was scarier to watch the video than to do the interview! I think I will tuck my hair behind my ears next time. 🙂
Read MoreMath Videos at the Sputnik Observatory
The Sputnik Observatory, is dedicated to providing a venue for viewing and sharing ideas and philosophies of contemporary culture. Jonathan Harris, who worked on the mindblowing sociological website We Feel Fine, is the site...
Read MoreWolframAlpha: Recalculating Teaching and Learning
For at least a decade, we have had the ability to let CAS software perform computational mathematics, yet computational skills are still a large portion of the mathematics curriculum. Enter Wolfram|Alpha. Unlike traditional CAS...
Read MoreWhat we’re doing with WolframAlpha
Originally, I started this post with the title “What I’m doing with Wolfram|Alpha” and then I revised it, because it’s not just me using Wolfram|Alpha. My students are using it too. Here are some of the...
Read MoreHow can we measure Teaching and Learning in Math?
Last week I prepared a new presentation for the MichMATYC conference based partially on the literature review for my dissertation. In my dissertation I am studying instructors, but in this talk I addressed both the instructor...
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