Tools of the Trade: Teaching Mathematics Online

Kitty Berver El Paso Community College

Plan for the hour Feel free to ask questions as we go!

MathType /Equation Editor for the LMS/Jing

Jing/Journal/Winplot/PollDaddy/Wolfram Alpha

Softchalk/Adobe Acrobat Pro/Camtasia

Software for the

students

Free software I

use

Other software I

use

• Communicating Mathematics

• I ask students to post a link to a Jing image

and to embed a Jing image.

• Jing makes it easy for a student to ask a question about a MyMathLab

homework or a section of the online textbook.

• Jing also enables students to include graphs, charts, or pictures on their posts.

Expectations for students

Students are tested over the information!

•Typed in MathType

•Quick screen capture with Jing

•Embedded in discussion!

Show work from My MathLab Student has full editing tools I don’t!

http://screencast.com/t/BXA7bzbt

Show work from My MathLab Student has full editing tools I don’t!

This student uploaded a picture of his work using his phone. I used Jing to cut it out, pasted it in Journal, and filled in the missing steps.

WINDOWS JOURNAL

Windows Journal is a notetaking application, created by Microsoft and included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition as well as Home Premium or superior editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

WACOM BAMBOO TABLET

Windows Journal + Wacom Bamboo table Allows me to write on the screen just as I would on paper

Creating Graphs - Winplot

Winplot is a graphing utility written and maintained by Richard Parris, a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.

It is totally free and there are a number of free tutorials available.

Use Polldaddy for quick feedback “worry” survey results

Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research and based on the computational platform Mathematica. It answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data.

Wolfram|Alpha is capable of responding to particularly phrased natural-language fact-based questions, and is used by Apple's Siri for factual question answering.

Wolfram Alpha

Softchalk Makes it easy to

produce web pages and interactive learning exercises

Graphing First Derivative

Adobe Acrobat Pro A great way to grade

student work or make files to view on the web.

Example of graded work Document with links

Camtasia

Edit and produce longer videos

Professional Software options Your school may have a license for these!

Links

MathType Free Download

My video on using WebEQ on Blackboard

Maria Anderson tip sheet for Canvas equation editor

Jing

Using Windows Journal

Wacom Bamboo Tablet

Winplot Download

Winplot tutorial

More Winplot tutorials

Polldaddy

Wolfram Alpha