Consumption and creation, K-12 discussion
2012 post encouraging creation on an iPad Broadening the discussion to task complexity and duration A forum discussion with some student views. Notice that they talk about music, movies, papers,...
View ArticleMath on the web: innovations from Khan Academy
The folks at Khan Academy are doing some very interesting things. Today I heard about an effort they’re calling KaTeX, math typesetting for the web. It is designed to be a fast alternative to MathJax,...
View ArticleSome interesting pre-calculus resources
My colleague Mike Weimerskirch at the University of Minnesota has set up a nice site of precalculus resources. It’s got videos, slides, and transcripts of short lectures on a variety of precalc topics,...
View ArticleLightweight math apps
Something I’ve seen more and more of lately is very lightweight apps that deal with algebra or other K-12 math topics. Last night I met the creator of Algebra Touch, Sean Berry. Algebra Touch is a...
View ArticleThe flipped classroom: reports from the field
For those of us in academia, the fall semester is wrapping up. It’s a time when we reflect on the success or lack thereof in our fall classes, because it’s almost over, the final is coming, and we...
View ArticleDesmos: a really fancy calculator, but much more
The Twittersphere recently made me aware of Desmos, a really fancy online graphing calculator. Fortunately, I was not introduced to it as such: I found it through a blog by a math teacher that now and...
View ArticleSurface Pro vs iPad
Recently I’ve been working with MCFAM to create supplementary online learning materials for probability. Tons of people take probability and need to learn it for professional exams, and we’d like to...
View ArticleReflections on the IMA Modeling Camp
I had the opportunity to help with this years IMA/MathCEP mathematical modeling camp a few weeks ago and wanted to share my thoughts on it. Daniel Schulthies organized the camp and followed the SIAM...
View ArticleGrammar Checkers for Writing Assignments in Math Classes
For the past few years there has been lots of talk about including writing assignments in college math courses. Writing assignments have been part of my teaching for many years now, including calculus...
View ArticleSome math ed tech links
Check out Hypernom, the new 4-D math game from Vi Hart and partners in (crime?) Andrea Hawksley (AH) and Henry Segerman. It’s pretty crazy — and beautiful. Nom nom nom. I can’t believe I missed this...
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