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MariaDroujkova

Join John Mason Wednesday, February 22, 2pm ET at Math Future online - 2 views

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    LOG IN February 22, 2012 at 2pm Eastern US time: http://tinyurl.com/math20event During the event, John Mason will lead a conversation about multiplication as scaling, and answer questions about his books, projects and communities. All events in the Math Future weekly series: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events The recording will be at: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/JohnMason Your time zone: http://bit.ly/wQYN1Y Event challenge! What good multiplication tasks about scaling do you know? Share links and thoughts! John writes about elastic multiplication: "It is often said that 'multiplication is repeated addition' when what is meant is that 'repeated addition is an instance of multiplication'. I have been developing some tasks which present 'scaling as multiplication' based around familiarity with elastic bands. Participants would benefit from having an elastic (rubber) band to hand which they have cut so as to make a strip; wider is better than thinner if you have a choice." About John Mason John Mason has been teaching mathematics ever since he was asked to tutor a fellow student when he was fifteen. In college he was at first unofficial tutor, then later an official tutor for mathematics students in the years behind him, while tutoring school students as well. After a BSc at Trinity College, Toronto in Mathematics, and an MSc at Massey College, Toronto, he went to Madison Wisconsin where he encountered Polya's film 'Let Us Teach Guessing', and completed a PhD in Combinatorial Geometry. The film released a style of teaching he had experienced at high school from his mathematics teacher Geoff Steel, and his teaching changed overnight. His first appointment was at the Open University, which involved among other things the design and implementation of the first mathematics summer school (5000 students over 11 weeks on three sites in parallel). He called upon his experience of being taught, to institute active-problem-solving sessions, w
Martin Burrett

http://www.st-andrews23.lancsngfl.ac.uk/download/494/Area.swf - 0 views

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    A great resource for learning about the area of 2D shapes, including rectangles, triangles and compound shapes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Garrett Eastman

Want to Ace Your Test? Share Your Feelings - ScienceNOW - 9 views

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    Reports research from UChicago: "Students who spend just ten minutes writing about their worries before a test score higher than" otherwise. Math tests of increasing difficulty and with more daunting circumstances were used in the study.
Maggie Verster

ACE Maths Project (OER Africa) - 0 views

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    The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa. Over a period of two years we adapted, piloted and revised a set of materials on the teaching and learning of maths for teacher education. These are now available for downloading FOR FREE in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word). See the ACEMaths Module to have a look.
Garrett Eastman

How humans learn to think mathematically - 13 views

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    David Tall, emeritus professor from Warwick in the UK, published this book in 2013, and this links to his summary and a sample chapter. His papers and other math resources are on his website: http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/index.html
Garrett Eastman

American Council on Education Recommends 5 MOOCs for Credit - 2 views

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    Three math courses among those recommended, offered via partnership with Coursera
Graeme Wadlow

Mathematics Learning Difficulties in the Early Primary School Years - 0 views

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    Mathematics Learning Difficulties in the Early Primary School Years
Garrett Eastman

Motivating children to learn effectively: Exploring the value of intrinsic integration ... - 15 views

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    "intrinsic approach to designing educational games" studied in experiments with Zombie Division to teach math to 7 and 11 year olds
Garrett Eastman

INTEGRATING ICT WITH EDUCATION: DESIGNING AN EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAME FOR TEACHING FUN... - 4 views

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    Abstract: "This research seeks to look into the design process that promotes the development of an educational computer game that supports teaching and learning processes. The research specifically looks at the design of an educational computer game for teaching and learning of the topic of functions. The topic is essential in the teaching and learning of Mathematics courses such as Discrete Mathematics, Real Analysis and Calculus among others at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Kenya. The computer game was developed using the Basic Unified process (BUP) which is a streamlined version of the rational unified process (RUP). This is an object oriented methodology mostly used for small projects with few end users. Due to the few numbers of end users we used interview method of data collection to gather requirements for the computer game. A paper prototype was used to validate the requirements. Use cases were used for both analysis and design of the game while Class diagrams and activity diagrams were purely used for the design of the game. Owens' six top level design anatomy aided in the design of the computer game. The overall computer game design was based on Crawfords' computer game design sequence model. The well designed and developed game met all its user requirements and was able to facilitate the teaching and learning of functions to Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science students who were taking Discrete mathematics in their first year of study at JKUATs' Taita/Taveta campus. Development of heuristics for measuring interest, fun and motivation are recommendations given to aid in the evaluation of user satisfaction of educational computer games."
Garrett Eastman

AC 2012-2984: ANALYSIS OF MATH COURSE PLACEMENT IMPROVEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY ACHIEVED... - 2 views

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    A pre-college bridge program using an assessment software is described, with some note of increased mentoring, tutoring availability and accommodations between first and second year implementation
Garrett Eastman

MacTutor History of Mathematics - 8 views

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    Archive from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of St. Andrews Scotland features biographies of famous mathematicians, historical topics in mathematics, and "mathematicians of the day"
Maggie Verster

AMESA 15th Annual National Congress - 0 views

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    Official 2009 website for the Amesa conference
Maggie Verster

Using visualisation in maths teaching - OpenLearn - The Open University - 0 views

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    This unit looks at visualisation as it relates to mathematics, focusing upon how it can be used to improve learning. It will also identify ways in which to make more use of visualisation within the classroom....
Maggie Verster

EXPLORING WHAT IT MEANS TO 'DO' MATHEMATICS - 0 views

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    This unit gives a historical background to mathematics education in South Africa, to outcomes-based education and to the national curriculum statement for mathematics. The traditional approach to teaching mathematics is then contrasted with an approach to teaching mathematics that focuses on 'doing' mathematics, and mathematics as a science of pattern and order, in which learners actively explore mathematical ideas in a conducive classroom environment.
Darren Kuropatwa

Maths solutions - home page - 0 views

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    Maths Solutions features experienced teachers demonstrating solutions to a series of maths problems that are known to challenge students. The solutions are presented as a series of short video clips displayed on the screen in a step-by-step format; in the same way as a teacher writing on a page or whiteboard. Choose the maths area that you need help with.
Colleen Young

Maths First Aid Kit from The Maths Centre - 0 views

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    75 double-sided A4 sheets
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