Posted by busynessgirl | Mar 25, 2009 | Calculators, CAS, Classroom Technology, Equation Editors, History of Math, Teaching Math |
Somewhere around hour #28 of dissertation research, I began looking for the answer to this question: Anyone know a resource where someone has documented a timeline of math technologies for teaching or math innovations...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 21, 2009 | Equation Editors, Teaching Math |
Donald Knuth is known as the inventor of TeX (among other things). A visit to his website is interesting (be sure to check out Knuth vs email since 1990). Most of the talk is about Knuth’s book 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 10, 2009 | Algebra, Math Study Skills, Prealgebra, Teaching Math |
Last week I was in Denver for a 1-day math conference and one of the speakers was Paul Nolting (who has written several books about math study skills). One of the resources that he passed along to us was an online Math Study...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 5, 2009 | Algebra, College Algebra, Teaching Math |
At the UMD faculty workshop, one of the participants had an idea for using an Animoto video. She suggested it might be a good way to break up a long lecture time. This got me thinking about short lessons (like the CommonCraft...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 2, 2009 | Digital Literacy, Personal Learning |
I’m in the DC area for a couple days and I was supposed to do a presentation to students at UMD today called “There’s More to the Web than Facebook.” Description: If you think the Internet is for playing...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 25, 2009 | Algebra, College Algebra, Math for Liberal Arts, Prealgebra, Teaching Math |
CommonCraft has three new videos about math (well, technically financial math). I wonder if they’ll tackle the Gaussian Copula Function next? Saving Money in Plain English Investing Money in Plain English Borrowing Money...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 17, 2009 | College Algebra, Math for Elem Teachers, Math for Liberal Arts, Teaching Math |
“We’re on the cusp of this new generation of tools for interacting with digital media that are going to bring information into our world on our terms.” – David Merrill Jump to 2:20 to see the math example...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 13, 2009 | Active Learning in Math, Algebra, Calculus (MV), Calculus (SV), Classroom Technology, College Algebra, Math for Elem Teachers, Prealgebra, Probability and Statistics, Teaching Math |
Today’s guest blogger is Derek Bruff, Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Derek writes a blog you may have stumbled across called Teaching with Classroom Response Systems.Here’s a...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 5, 2009 | Teaching Math |
Today’s guest blogger is Paul Ancka, a middle school / high school teacher from Pasadena, California. I teach at a very small nonprofit private school (50 kids), grades 6-12. I have been using Saxon Math for the past 3...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Jan 29, 2009 | Interactive Math Online, Teaching Math |
Today’s blog post is from Tessa Bissette from West Central Technical College. I am always looking for good learning objects. My definition of a learning object that involves technology is a digital, interactive lesson on...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Jan 27, 2009 | Algebra, Math for Elem Teachers, Math Humor, Prealgebra, Quantitative Reasoning, Teaching Math |
From xkcd: Maybe Common Craft can tackle Metrics in Plain English next?
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