I have always tried to teach algebra in a way that is understandable, interesting, and active. Although you can find activities for teaching algebra to younger students (6th and 7th graders), I have never found a good classroom...
Read MoreI found this nice website while looking around the website of a community college in Maine. The Famous Curves Index (published by a school of mathematics in Scotland) has 63 famous curves complete with equations, graphs (like...
Read MoreVirtual Magnifying GlassWhat is it? Have you ever watched a presentation in which the presenter took you to a website where the text was too small to read on part of the site? Or presented a problem or animation in class where...
Read MoreDon’t ask me how I find this stuff… but it sure is fun to discover what’s out there!Here are 17 songs for Calculus (compiled by Lois Goldstein).I’m thinking we may have to go Calculus caroling in...
Read MoreToday I am forwarding you on to Ray Kurzweil’s Ted Talk “How technology’s accelerating power will transform us”This whole talk is about exponential trends. There are several beautiful log-plots of modern...
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You can become much faster using MathType if you just give in and learn a couple of little...
Read MoreToday I want to be a biologist! Wait… technically I am a biologist (at least by one degree)… Follow this link to watch the movie and read about the collaboration between Harvard University and XVIVO that created the...
Read MoreOkay, this is a PC’s 101 post… if you don’t know these, you should! They are very helpful.Ctrl+z: UNDO … in most PC programs this will undo your last step(s)Ctrl+x: CUTCtrl+c: COPYCtrl+v: PASTECtrl+b:...
Read MoreThere was a question on one of the listserves I am on about communication with students and student participation.In all of my online or hybrid classes, I have the students collect Participation points. For each unit, students...
Read MoreAs we are currently learning about all of our new technology on campus, and instructors and staff are feeling a bit overwhelmed by learning these new systems, I thought this little YouTube video (forwarded by a friend) is...
Read MoreMy online calculus course just went through “evaluation” today and I was a bit worried about one of my interpretations of the evaluation checklist … a place to report on the evaluation the orientation document...
Read MoreI started blogging with “Busynessgirl” on June 24, 2007. Here is the story. When my partner (who generally does not advocate me doing any more than I already do) suggested that it was time for me to start blogging...
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