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Authoring tools for teachers

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 [...]

How to improve student math learning?

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 [...]

Tesselations!

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.

The trouble with testing

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 [...]

Warning! Will Robinson! Warning!

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 [...]