Questions tagged [online-instruction]
For questions about teaching mathematics online and online resources.
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Making an online math course "interactive"
I teach some fully online math courses (community college in the USA), and I'd like to hear how you have made your online classes successfully "interactive" along three axes: Student-to-...
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Recommended math site or app for 7th/8th grade
I am looking for an app or website that teaches math at 7th or 8th grade level (for my son). The emphasis should be on fun, game-like experience, that would maintain his natural excitement and ...
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Studies on the effects of using online platforms in teaching mathematics on students' beliefs about mathematics
Are you aware of any research examining the impact of utilizing online platforms in teaching mathematics, on students' beliefs about mathematics? To give you an example of the kind of beliefs that I ...
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How do/should administrators estimate the cost of producing an online introductory mathematics class?
With the advent of the Internet administrators used to allocate release time or summer salary for making online course content. The pandemic made a Sal Khan out of most of us and making online content ...
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Suggestions for Virtual Blackboard?
From time to time I need to teach mathematics to my students remotely. I would like to approximate writing on a blackboard together.
The subjects I teach are geometry and pre-calculus. So I would like ...
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Online math quiz: students make short video explaining solution
I am teaching high school math. My students are generally hardworking and competent. Class sizes are about 35.
We were recently forced online due to the pandemic, and I have been searching for a way ...
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Online homework systems for ordinary differential equations
What are the online homework systems for ordinary differential equations?
If you have worked with two or more systems I would like to know how you compare them for ODEs. I have heard of WebAssign, ...
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What software can I use for remote math tutoring?
I am preparing to do some remote tutoring and I am looking for software to help me out.
Requirements:
Drawing area shared by the tutor and the student, both can draw on the page
Multiple drawing ...
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What do you think, is teaching on an actual board more efficient than using an online board?
I am a sophomore math undergraduate and so far all of my university courses have been online due to the pandemic. I am really curious what you guys think about the efficiency of teaching mathematics ...
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Code for Urn (containing colored balls) generator? [duplicate]
I am interested in code that generates an urn with various colored balls for an economics experiment. I came across this thread: Urn (containing colored balls) generator?
However, the server that the ...
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Remote work in math academia
Migrated from Mathoverflow.net
This is a questions about teaching/research in math academia.
During the pandemic, many things have been moved online: courses, seminars, informal gatherings, etc. As a ...
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Hourly math contests online
You can play chess online anytime you want to, even against a human opponent of your level, even in hourly competitions.
It would be nice to have the same thing in math, at least for kids.
Everyone ...
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Looking for a collaborative drawing solution
Preparing for a class I teach this summer and stumbled upon a technology problem.
I want to show my students a graph, ask students to annotate it privately (eg mark mean on a histogram) and then ...
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Converting an Online Course Back to In-Person
As I wrap up my Spring semester online courses, I'm starting to think about next Fall when (hopefully) our university will return to full in-person classes. Because of COVID, over the last year I have ...
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How many of "The Seven Laws of Teaching" are still relevant for teaching maths today?
Wikipedia shows that in 1886 John Milton Gregory outlined his "The Seven Laws of Teaching"; asserting that a teacher should:
Know thoroughly and familiarly the lesson you wish to teach; ...
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