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January Math & Technology Workshop Announcement
Although the logistics of room scheduling, getting the technology in the rooms, etc. are still being finalized, the date is now set for the Saturday, January, 28, 2012, Macomb Community College Math & Technology Workshop! Registration will be open soon. Please be sure to register early since the workshop will be capped at 30 participants. …
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Maria Andersen – Where’s the ‘Learn This’ Button?
Maria Andersen (www.teachingcollegemath.com), recently gave a talk at IGNITE Great Lakes. Please take a moment to watch her talk. I was there, so I can personally tell you that it's worth your time to watch. Thanks!
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Histogram Match-Up Activity
When I got this Histogram Match-Up Activity, I liked the concept, but the instructions weren’t very clear for the students. I’ve cleaned it up some (again, my modifications), and am posting it here. This activity is different from Histogram Sort as it covers constructing a histogram verses simply sorting the histograms by ‘shapes’. Histogram Match-Up
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Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning
CAUSEWeb really does put out some great activities for teaching Introductory Statistics, such as Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning. In fact, they have an entire Statistics Activity Webinar Series that they do regularly. I was told that this particular activity would easily be modified for the college classroom (where we sometimes don’t have as much…
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Composite Figures Diagram
I refer to this diagram all the time for my online classes. I'm tired of digging through months and months of e-mails just to find it, so I am posting it here!
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NOIR: New Statistics Game
NOIR stands for Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio, and is a game to help students distinguish between the four different levels of measurement. I had been working on this game all week, and I finally had time for my students to play it in class on Thursday. After the game, they filled out a review form…
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Relaxation at its finest
Here are a couple of popular YouTube videos that I have selected to help you relax this weekend.
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MCC Math and Technology Workshop 2011
This is a link to what I have been learning throughout the week https://sites.google.com/site/mccmathsite/home.
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Algebra Games Day!
I had an Algebra Games Day with my students on Friday, July 29, to try out a few of my new Algebra games (as well as Mark Clark’s exponent sort). The students filled out feedback forms and I intend to update this post with some of their comments about the games in the next few…
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Freaking Functions! — New Functions Game
Here’s the game I’ve been promising all week! Freaking Functions
Jon Oaks 