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Ellis-Monaghan, Joanna A. – PRIMUS, 2010
This article shares some personal reflections on several years of integrating educational technology into mathematics courses while retaining the direct interaction strengths of the traditional classroom.
Descriptors: Graphing Calculators, Educational Technology, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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McGinty, Jenny; Ninness, Chris; McCuller, Glen; Rumph, Robin; Goodwin, Andrea; Kelso, Ginger; Lopez, Angie; Kelly, Elizabeth – Psychological Record, 2012
A small-group, web-interactive approach to teaching precalculus concepts was investigated. Following an online pretest, 3 participants were given a brief (15 min) presentation on the details of reciprocal math relations and how they operate on the coordinate axes. During baseline, participants were tested regarding their ability to construct…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Calculus, Graphs, Pretests Posttests
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Miller, Haynes R.; Upton, Deborah S. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
The d'Arbeloff Interactive Mathematics Project or d'AIMP is an initiative that seeks to enhance and ultimately transform the teaching and learning of introductory mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A result of this project is a suite of "mathlets," a carefully developed set of dynamic computer applets for use in the…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, College Instruction
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Greer, Meredith L.; Reed, Benjamin – PRIMUS, 2008
A professor and student have a conversation about using blogs as part of a mathematics class. The goals of using a blog include giving students a motivation to read ahead in their textbooks, providing another means of communication between students and the professor, and creating a space for students to write about mathematics. The article also…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Performance Based Assessment
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Bringslid, Odd – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
The projects Xmath (Bringslid and Canessa, 2002) and dMath (Bringslid, de la Villa and Rodriguez, 2007) were supported by the European Commission in the so called Minerva Action (Xmath) and The Leonardo da Vinci programme (dMath). The Xmath eBook (Bringslid, 2006) includes algorithms into a wide range of undergraduate mathematical issues embedded…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Internet, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries