All Blog Posts Tagged 'mathematics' (22)

Math Podcast's for 6th Graders?

I have recently created a podcast in a graduate class. It was fun to create and I find that it can be very informative if done correctly. However, it was very time consuming. So until I build up a collection of my own podcasts, I am wondering if anyone knows of any good podcasts that are already created form implementation? Also, what ways have you found as the best way to implement a podcast effectively?

Added by Neil Groft on March 11, 2012 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

What's all the buzz about?

The buzz around here is that BuzzMath is offering a FREE full-access membership for one teacher and 30 of their students in every school for an entire school year. BuzzMath is the latest interactive mathematics workbook for middle school students. This website offers 2,700+ online math problems with instant feedback and detailed solutions. It is amazing to watch students manipulate protractors, create triangles on a grid,…

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Added by Jamie Piecora on September 7, 2011 at 8:25am — No Comments

Mathematics education - dire or inspire?

Maths education – dire or inspire?

You could see the panic in their faces - and then the relief.

They were students in their final year of high school on a visit to campus to explore the possibility of “going to uni” after they finished their compulsory schooling. I had, perhaps perversely, set up an experiment. I had told them that two of them would find a red dot under their seat - and if they were one of these people they would come forward and participate in a simple… Continue

Added by nevbar1 on August 21, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Improving numeracy with the 7 C's

There have been many reformers offering ideas for improving numeracy in our schools. Many of them advocate the use of specific commercial resources or explicit lesson plans – in short they offer recipes for teachers and schools to follow. The quietly spoken Alistair McIntosh (formerly Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia)…

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Added by nevbar1 on August 15, 2011 at 12:29am — No Comments

Mathematical Maverick – Dan Meyer – “Be less helpful”

If mathematics has a poster boy it is – or at least should be – Dan Meyer. Meyer is something of a rarity in the field of public discussion of mathematics; he is not an academic, he is not an educational administrator, he is a teacher - someone who works in real classrooms with real students with real mathematics. It is this “real world” context that makes him worth listening to – and which provides the grounding for his instruction.

Meyer is an advocate of authentic…

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Added by nevbar1 on June 21, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Mathematicians' Lament - Paul Lockhart

Following on consistently in my habit of being the last kid on the block to discover something I recently fell upon “Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart.

The history of the book is interesting in itself – it actually started life as a 25 page type written document that was presented to math guru Keith Devlin at a conference. Devlin was intrigued and impressed… Continue

Added by nevbar1 on June 16, 2011 at 8:28pm — No Comments

Introducing Mathematics and Multimedia

Hi everyone. I would like to introduce my blog, the Mathematics and Multimedia.

This blog has two main themes: one is mathematics and the other is multimedia. The mathematics part will discuss ideas behind mathematical concepts from elementary to undergraduate topics. The multimedia part will discuss the use of different media such as text, graphics, sounds, video and animation in teaching mathematics. Mathematics and…

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Added by Guillermo Bautista on February 8, 2011 at 7:43pm — 1 Comment

cosecant arguments; not like you think the other argument.

for csc(2n+1) ; the "2n + 1" is considered the argument. The argument I am referring to in the title is the age old battle between what should you know and what should you be able to get, look up, or derive when needed.

The battle rages on. Here is my update to the JS Maths Wiki that was inspired by one such argument (very civil) that I participated in at a holiday party for the staff at our school. Here is… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on December 20, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Wave, wiki and what not?

I have updated the JS Maths Wiki with some student contributions. Inequalities with examples and audio explanations. Listen while you try your homework.

My students and I have had our wave accounts for about a week now. We are, as expected, impressed. We are trying/toying with the idea of building a wave gadget in our Java class, but can not get GWT to work on Ubuntu?…

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Added by Geoff St. Pierre on October 15, 2009 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Editing Equations on Web 2.0 Sites

What are your needs for editing and rendering equations or formulae on Web 2.0 sites? Social networks and Web 2.0 sites are the ideal forum for sharing, but they are not geared for academic use. Academic discussions would be considerably improved if Web 2.0 sites would add just three buttons: Superscript, Subscript and Greek letters to the HTML editing toolbar. Perhaps we should ask Ning and other social network providers for better support for this… Continue

Added by Colin McAllister on July 7, 2009 at 7:05pm — 1 Comment

Mathematics typesetting w/ LaTeX in MediaWiki

Here is a screencast to get you started writing mathematics for the web:

http://www.screencast.com/t/IO8PU8zbGSU

you can try out your skills at http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/wiki and make a legit page or just try some stuff out on the sandbox page.

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 17, 2009 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Wiki How To

I created this video with the jing software on how to edit a wiki.

I plan to create some more videos in this series on Wiki Syntax, and advanced features..

I have also updated my math wiki text to include a section on linear systems: JS Math Linear… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 3, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

updates: math wiki; functions ;; windows seven termination sequence

Small content update on the JS Math Wiki.

My write up of my windows seven beta test: http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/gff

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 30, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Super Data Stacker Hacker: http://wolframalpha.com

Playing around with this: http://wolframalpha.com site. It has been brought to my attention by the abdbg; and he has made a more comprehensive post about look and features.

It has been showing up on the twit radar, and other places. I used it in class today to generate random numbers, but then gave up on it (for… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 19, 2009 at 4:29pm — No Comments

js math wiki updated ... matrices

matrices updated, what is a scalar, vector, and matrix. 2×2’s and m x n’s … it is a work in progress… js math wiki

fun be where its at.
Geoff

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on April 1, 2009 at 6:14pm — No Comments

Definition of a Derivative

JS Wiki Math uptdated with more video.

Statement of the definition of a derivative, geometrical motivation, and two examples of application of the definition.

I welcome other video contributers to the wiki! Participate,… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on March 19, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Video and Extending the Classroom

here is the link: JS Wiki Math

building an interactive math text. SP

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on March 18, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

MIT Open Courseware

Maybe I am behind the times here as MIT released this in 1999, but it is awesome.

One of the worlds greatest universities releasing their educational content for anyone in the world to view, study, and better themselves free of charge.

the site is: http://ocw.mit.edu

they have a lot of content; video lectures, problem sets, lecture notes, and more. Topics from many departments; Mathematics, History and many more.

I can… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on February 25, 2009 at 8:19pm — No Comments

Video in Wiki Maths Text

I have added video to the wiki, using EmbedVideo extension of mediawiki.

I have posted a video instructing an example of the Completing the Square technique.

I intend to record more video lessons and embed them into the math text, so it is like a book and a teacher all in one.

Of course you can not ask the video questions, but… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on February 24, 2009 at 5:59pm — No Comments

MediaWiki, LaTeX and teTeX

Spent the greater part of the day getting matrices and \mathbb to work on my FreeBSD/MediaWiki install.

The issue is with amsfonts. I installed the latex port, but this does not include amsfonts. Deinstalled and installed teTeX, restarted apache and voila I now have vectors, matrices, and more.

Visit: Maths to see some matrices and \mathbb's

I posted what I did in some detail to:…

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Added by Geoff St. Pierre on February 20, 2009 at 6:31pm — No Comments