Our main goals for today are to learn how to use the commands in the Transform and Construct menus. Class outline: overview of the Transform menu download and play Transformation Golf discuss the advantages of Transformation Golf and Transtar break overview and exploration of the Construct menu discuss constructions vs drawings construct a square construct […]
If you’re using equation editor a lot, you’ll want it on your task bar, so you don’t have to either copy and paste or go in through insert object to get an equation. This used to be easy, but it’s a little tricky in Word 2007. This web site will show you how. Finding a […]
These are some of my favorite people to follow–they say insightful, thoughtful things about teaching math. Kate Nowak teaches high school math in New York. She has a lot of good ideas for teaching math concepts well. Some of them use computers in a direct way, others don’t. Dan Meyer is the star of the […]
1. Give an example of a math topic that a computer demonstration would help teach, and describe how you would use the computer. 2. Explain how to get the exact value for sin(60 °). 3. Explain how to put (a random point I think of) into polar coordinates). 4. Explain the difference between a histogram […]
So, I’ve been debating with myself what to do with the last two weeks of class. We’ve dabbled in a lot of things (more than usual), but haven’t spent much time on any one software resource or math topic. My feeling for what’s going to be most useful is for us to spend most of […]
In a lesson a bit like LeeAnn’s, Mr Sweeny describes a lesson on exponent rules using Wolfram Alpha. If you browse through his site, you’ll also find that he describes the study method he teaches to his college-bound juniors and seniors. If you, like me, aren’t very self aware about how you study, you might […]
When you are copying and pasting something from Word into Notebook, you may notice that embedded graphics (including some formulas) don’t paste in. What’s going on is that you can paste text or you can paste graphics, but not both at the same time, so past the text, and then past the graphics, and all […]
So, there are a few other blogs on my own personal list, that I read occasionally. One of them, the math Curmudgeon, is, as you will see, not a fan of SMART boards. However, regardless of any differences of opinion we might have about SMART boards being useful, I think you’ll also look at the […]
Riley Lark over at Point of Inflection has been trying out CPM. He mostly loves it (except of course where he doesn’t). Check out his perspectives in these 3 posts. Why CPM is killing my blog Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! What do you mean, “relevant”?
Katie found a really cool site about algebra.