Monthly Archives: August 2010
In the trenches with enVisionMATH
It’s been back-to-school time for everybody in our household (hence an excuse for the light posting). We started classes at the college today, and last week the 4.5-year old went back to preschool full-time and the 6.5-year old started first … Continue reading
Filed under Early education, Education, Math
This week in screencasting: Contour plots in MATLAB
By my count, this past week I produced and posted 22 different screencasts to YouTube! Almost all of those are short instructional videos for our calculus students taking Mastery Exams on precalculus material. But I did make two more MATLAB-oriented … Continue reading
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Filed under Calculus, Educational technology, Math, MATLAB, Screencasts, Technology
One month with the iPhone 4
Image by griffintech via Flickr Longtime readers will remember that I’ve owned an iPod Touch for a couple of years now, and it’s a marvelous device. The only things that kept it from being the perfect handheld, for me, were … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, iPhone, Technology
Why change how we teach?
Sometimes when I read or hear discussions of innovation or change in teaching mathematics or other STEM disciplines, whether it’s me or somebody else doing the discussing, inevitably there’s the following response: What do we need all that change for? … Continue reading
This week in screencasting: Making 3D plots in MATLAB
I’ve just started on a binge of screencast-making that will probably continue throughout the fall. Some of these screencasts will support one of my colleagues who is teaching Calculus III this semester; this is our first attempt at making the … Continue reading
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Filed under Calculus, Camtasia, Screencasts, Teaching, Technology, Textbook-free
Student (mis)understanding of the equals sign
Interesting report here (via Reidar Mosvold) about American students’ misunderstanding of the “equals” sign and how that understanding might feed into a host of mathematical issues from elementary school all the way to calculus. According to researchers Robert M. Capraro … Continue reading
Filed under Calculators, Education, Educational technology, Math, Problem Solving, Teaching, Technology
Calculus and conceptual frameworks
I was having a conversation recently with a colleague who might be teaching a section of our intro programming course this fall. In sharing my experiences about teaching programming from the MATLAB course, I mentioned that the thing that is … Continue reading
Filed under Calculus, Critical thinking, Education, Educational technology, Math, Problem Solving, Teaching, Technology, Textbooks
Google Wave and disruptive simplicity
Google today announced that it will be suspending development on Google Wave, the communications tool it launched last year. Wave attracted unprecedented hype in the run-up to its launch, with Wave invites serving as a kind of geek status symbol … Continue reading
Filed under Social software, Technology
