Classroom Teaching

What if there was a Google for Math?

• CAS

What if there was a Google for Math?

Maria Andersen 15 May 2009

WolframAlpha is launched

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Mathematics Instructional Practices

• Math Ed Research

Mathematics Instructional Practices

Maria Andersen 1 May 2009

What follows are ten mathematics instructional practices (MIPs) are meant to capture the nuances of the majority...

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Teaching Statistics with Clickers

• Classroom Tech

Teaching Statistics with Clickers

Maria Andersen 31 March 2009

I haven’t talked a lot about clickers on this blog, mostly because there’s no easy way for...

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History of Tools in the Teaching of Math

• Calculators

History of Tools in the Teaching of Math

Maria Andersen 26 March 2009

Somewhere around hour #28 of dissertation research, I began looking for the answer to this question: Anyone...

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Teaching Math with Clickers

• Active Learning in Math

Teaching Math with Clickers

Maria Andersen 13 February 2009

Today’s guest blogger is Derek Bruff, Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Derek...

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Laptops in the Classroom

• Classroom Life

Laptops in the Classroom

Maria Andersen 30 May 2008

Over at elearnspace, there was an interesting blog post called “Hey You, Pay Attention!” I tried to...

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Typeset Math Easily on a Computer

• 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...

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Education, Competition, and the Environment

• 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...

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Even better than the “live” version?

• 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”...

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Academia 2.0

• 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...

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

• 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...

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College Learning Spaces

• 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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Suggestions from the Age of Distraction

• Digital Literacy

Suggestions from the Age of Distraction

Maria Andersen 13 December 2007

A reading assignment for today: The Age of Distraction: The Professor or the Processor? by Michael Bugeja...

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Hyperjobs… College instructors of the future

• Classroom Life

Hyperjobs… College instructors of the future

Maria Andersen 30 October 2007

Someone passed this interesting set of articles from The Futurist to me. It is a Special Report...

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Way Cool Biology Animations

• Classroom Teaching

Way Cool Biology Animations

Maria Andersen 9 October 2007

Today I want to be a biologist!  Wait… technically I am a biologist (at least by one...

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Tech Support During the Middle Ages

• Digital Literacy

Tech Support During the Middle Ages

Maria Andersen 30 August 2007

As we are currently learning about all of our new technology on campus, and instructors and staff...

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