Maria Andersen, Author at Edge of Learning

Nobody Should Learn Algebra

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Algebra

Nobody Should Learn Algebra

Maria Andersen 28 March 2008

Roger Schank (author of many books about education) has written an interesting piece called “Just the Facts,...

Lewis Dot Diagrams in MathType

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Equation Editors

Lewis Dot Diagrams in MathType

Maria Andersen 27 March 2008

I was discussing MathType with my officemate (who is primarily a chemistry instructor), and we got on...

Listening to the Rationals and Irrationals

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Algebra

Listening to the Rationals and Irrationals

Maria Andersen 19 March 2008

Earlier this year I shared an application with you that would play a song based on the...

Logistic Consumption Curves

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Algebra

Logistic Consumption Curves

Maria Andersen 11 March 2008

This great graphic is from the New York Times (2/10/08) article entitled “You are what you spend”...

Education = Creativity (True or False?)

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Uncategorised

Education = Creativity (True or False?)

Maria Andersen 1 March 2008

The 2008 TED conference is going on in California right now, and so I find myself watching...

Typeset Math Easily on a Computer

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Classroom Life

Typeset Math Easily on a Computer

Maria Andersen 26 February 2008

Consider an English class prior to word processors. You wrote a sentence. You rewrote the sentence. You...

Idealism and Reality in Math Tech? WAKE UP!

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Uncategorised

Idealism and Reality in Math Tech? WAKE UP!

Maria Andersen 25 February 2008

I usually don’t use this space to rant about other blog posts, but I really have to...

Why Subtraction Algorithms are Hard to Learn

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Math for Elem Teachers

Why Subtraction Algorithms are Hard to Learn

Maria Andersen 24 February 2008

Once you learn the algorithms for doing multidigit subtraction, then it might be difficult to remember why...

Nudging Text in MathType

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Equation Editors

Nudging Text in MathType

Maria Andersen 23 February 2008

Here’s where I have to admit that I used MathType for YEARS before I learned this little...

Education, Competition, and the Environment

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Digital Literacy

Education, Competition, and the Environment

Maria Andersen 21 February 2008

This video Did You Ever Wonder? produced by Bill Farren, provides, according to the author, a counterpoint...

Even better than the “live” version?

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Classroom Life

Even better than the “live” version?

Maria Andersen 15 February 2008

When I left class on Tuesday – I just didn’t feel like I had gotten class “right”...

Academia 2.0

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Classroom Life

Academia 2.0

Maria Andersen 15 February 2008

I stumbled across this great video tonight – a follow-up to Michael Wesch’s A Vision of Students...

Rotate your Volume Visualizations

1 min read

Calculus

Rotate your Volume Visualizations

Maria Andersen 14 February 2008

The most difficult to visualize volumes are the ones that are NOT the result of a revolution...

Visual Volume Demos

2 min read

Calculus

Visual Volume Demos

Maria Andersen 12 February 2008

It’s one of my favorite weeks in Calculus: Volumes of Rotation Week! I thought I would share...

What will we be doing when THESE students get to College?

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Classroom Life

What will we be doing when THESE students get to College?

Maria Andersen 26 January 2008

Pearson just came out with a press release about their new enVisionMATH curiculum, which they claim “meets...

Some Basic HTML for Math

Maria Andersen 2 January 2008

I think it would be a good idea for every instructor who teaches in an online/hybrid format...

Animated Demo of Domain and Range Projections

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Algebra

Animated Demo of Domain and Range Projections

Maria Andersen 1 January 2008

I promised (long ago) to share some of the Action Button material that you can do in...

Creating Inequality Graphs

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Creating Math Graphs

Creating Inequality Graphs

Maria Andersen 31 December 2007

One of my assistants requested advice about creating an inequality graph (with grey shading) using PowerPoint, so...

College Learning Spaces

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Classroom Life

College Learning Spaces

Maria Andersen 29 December 2007

One of the pictures from this Inspired Classroom Wiki got me thinking about our college learning spaces....

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