Level Up: Video Games for Learning Algebra
Last week I gave a presentation at AMATYC about video games for learning algebra. As usual, Mat...
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Category: Prealgebra
Coming out of the Closet: I’m a Game Designer!
I don’t even really know how to begin here. For the last three years I’ve been working...
Read MoreBattling Bad Science (and Statistics)
If you ever needed a REASON to calculate the highest point of a parabola that opens downward, here’s one.
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Exponent Block and Factor Pair Block
A few weeks ago I built two new games for algebra in one week. These games just use the game...
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Prime Number Manipulatives
In this post we liken finding the prime number factorization to the nucleotides that make up a gene. Each prime number has a unique “prime fingerprint.”
Read MoreAlgebra Balance Scales
There are lots of “games” out there about solving equations, but I haven’t found a single one that is more than algebra homework dressed up with pretty packaging. The “games” are all of the same...
Read MoreNew Math: A Formula for Everything
I think that I will have to start (or end?) every class session next fall with one of these fabulous formulas from New Math. Some of them are obvious (once you see them) and some of them just have me laughing out loud because of...
Read MoreMath Study Skills Evaluation
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 MoreCommon Craft Explains Finance
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 MoreTeaching Math with Clickers
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 MoreMetric System in Real World Context
From xkcd: Maybe Common Craft can tackle Metrics in Plain English next?
Read MoreGlass Wall Study Guide
Next fall I will be teaching Math for Elementary Teachers again. I haven’t taught this class since winter of 2007, so I haven’t extensively blogged about resources for this class. For those of you who teach this...
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