Questions tagged [online-instruction]
For questions about teaching mathematics online and online resources.
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How shall we teach math online?
Many universities, including mine, are now requiring we teach our courses online because corona. How shall we do this? Let’s brainstorm here.
Some challenges:
My school provides limited online ...
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Real time interactive whiteboard for tutoring math
I have reposted this question on Software Recommendations.
I'm looking for a web app for tutoring math remotely to high school and junior high kids that ideally has the following:
Build in graphing. ...
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Online Whiteboard Application with Simple Latex Support
Like a lot of people, my school is in the position of having to move their courses online. Does anyone know a good whiteboard app that allows simple latex entry? The closest I've been able to find is ...
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How, now, shall we teach math online?
Now that everyone has had the experience of teaching math in an online/remote/synchronous/asynchronous format, and looking forward to more of this in the Summer and Fall terms, how do we change our ...
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Urn (containing colored balls) generator?
I am looking for a nice app that would enable me to create "automatically" nice urns filled with balls of two different colors, following the illustration below (actual colors do not matter, being ...
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Is Khan academy really good?
At first glance, I thought Khan academy was a good site for teaching people math.
After trying it out, I quickly found that the topics were very limited.
So is Khan academy actually as good as I ...
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How to conduct online testing for Calculus?
Due to COVID-19, I have been planning to transition to online teaching (which, of course, includes online testing as well). The LMS that we use is Blackboard which is integrated with Proctorio. ...
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Is WebAssign ADA compliant?
I hope this is a good place to ask about this. My institution uses WebAssign for homework in many classes. A concern has come up about being compliant with ADA. From a page on the WebAssign site, it ...
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Efficient methods to receive and grade online mathematics assessments?
I am UK-based but I guess this issue currently affects all maths educators and has probably been addressed by those how have been delivering courses through online channels for the past few years.
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Do you know of any third-party math-friendly testing software?
At a previous institution, we used moodle for our learning management system, which has a fairly useful tool for creating quizzes that make it more difficult for the student to cheat. In particular, ...
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Pen tablet recommendations? (Mac OS)
I have been tutoring using my iPad and I love it. Now that I'm moving away, my students have requested that I continue tutoring them online, and I'm not sure I can do so using my iPad anymore. I would ...
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Existing Tools for Math Expression Equivalence Logic
Note - this question was posted here and garnered some decent replies before it was closed as off-topic in Stack Overflow.
Online systems, such as ALEKS, Cengage's WebAssign, and even Khan Academy ...
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Online open-course-ware that uses Maclane's book "Algebra"
I am struggling with that book which I find to be more of second-guessing type than a book for self-study: it has cryptically written sections, no examples (and those given, and rarely, are even more ...
