03 Jan

Math VIDEO Highlights

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
Highlights of (mostly) student work turned into a video.  Personally, I can't stop watching it.  But we'll see how the students feel about it tomorrow morning on the first day of class.  I'm looking forward to sharing this with them. animoto_video.mp4 Watch on Posterous
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03 Jan

MATH Movie Trailers

By Jon OaksUncategorized, ,
Happy New Year!  First of all, if you're not following along with Teaching College Math on Twitter, I seriously think that you're missing out on a lot of good ideas.  Like the one I'm about to suggest to you.  A recent twitter challenge stated:  "Challenge: Make a one-minute trailer (like in the movies) for Algebra that makes students WANT to take it. #math".  This is something I've been thinking about doing for a while, but I just didn't know how to put it into words.  I can think of plenty of ways to start this:  1) Possibly use Animoto (it may work if…
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