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I’ve been re reading Lite Applets at Joma and looking at the Java Components for Mathematics website and imagining that I could quickly make those applets configurable from within TADRIOLA. It shouldn’t take much and I believe it will make teacher use of those mathlets much more likely.
Posted on September 16th, 2003 by joel
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I’m not a big fan of rote learning, but I realize that kids need to learn to efficiently recall basic math facts. My boy is in 3rd grade and is learning his multiplication facts and is still a bit weak on his addition facts. The strategy they use in my boy’s classroom is repetition. He [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2003 by joel
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My dissertation study is titled Theory for Authoring Tools that Support Adaptation of Mathlets (TATSTAM). So a main thrust of my research is to identify the characteristics of tools that support teacher reuse and adaptation of interactive online learning activities. As a result I’m continually looking for projects that are working towards similar goals as [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2003 by joel
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I’ve been visiting recently with colleagues here at Utah State University discussing the initiation of a new project to help improve math education here in the state. If you were given an infinite supply of money, time, and personnel, what would you do?
If you were given a small amount of resources, what would you do?
Who [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2003 by joel
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My fascination with Tesselations continues. I just read Andrea’s post which pointed me to a tesselations site I hadn’t seen before: Tesselating Animation out of Japan. Other tesselation and wallpaper resources that I like are: Shodor’s Tesselate!, NLVM’s pattern blocks, Stephen Weber’s JTiling, David Joyce’s Hyperbolic Tesselations, Escher and the Droste effect, Rober Fathauer’s references.
Posted on September 3rd, 2003 by joel
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Last night while typing focus group data into my palm pilot I watched a program on PBS titled The Trouble with Testing. My interest in this area is in the potential for using mathlets for alternate forms of evaluation. I believe that they could be used to record solution paths followed and student reasoning. In [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2003 by joel
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Joel has begun blogging. Not nearly as irreverant as I understand a blogger should be, I’m excited to begin authoring in addition to lurking.
Many thanks to my Ph.D. chair David Wiley for getting me started.
My primary interest is in completing my dissertation study titled Design Theory for Authoring Tools that Support Teacher Adaptation of Mathlets [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2003 by joel
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