Category Archives: math

Teaching with simulations

Posted on April 17, 2012 by karen

PhET is is an incredible collection of interactive simulations for math and science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are high quality, research-based, free, and open licensed. And they offer accompanying teaching resources as well.
If you aren’t familiar with PhET, there is a free webinar next week being offered by the Oregon Virtual [...] Continue reading →

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An idea

Posted on November 6, 2011 by karen

I’ve mostly been too consumed with the pilot of the P2PU School of Ed to think much about what comes next, but here are two interesting things that have bubbled to the surface.
First, the idea to remix an open math textbook into an interactive Moodle course (and perhaps more) has been spun off into a [...] Continue reading →

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Your Path to Math

Posted on October 7, 2011 by karen

So I’ve got the Moodle 2 site set up for the math textbook remix project I’m doing as a part of two P2PU courses.
I took a look at the Common Core standards for math as they related to fractions. (I decided to focus for now on one module: fractions, rather than the whole year’s curriculum [...] Continue reading →

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