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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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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Chat software for "online office hours"
I am planning to do "online office hours" for students in math courses (undergrad level). My motivation is:
To give the students the possibility to ask questions remotely
To give the students the ...
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How shall we use online math forums such as math.SE in mathematics instruction?
What is the best way to use online mathematics forums, such as mathematics.stackexchange.com or Khan Academy, in mathematics instruction?
I regularly encourage my undergraduate students to ...
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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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Teaching intuition for the universal property of the product (category theory)
In category theory, there's the idea of the product as an object satisfying a particular universal property.
Can you suggest ways to make the concept of the product intuitive? (So far, my attempt ...
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Question formats for online tests, to deter cheating
I'm teaching calculus 1 online this term and anticipate being plagued by the perennial problem of cheaters. I have seen suggestions for how to arrange the testing time to accommodate for traditional ...
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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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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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Transitioning proof based math courses online
I'd love to learn from anyone's recent experiences teaching online proof based math courses, especially those that have a large group of students who will be working asynchronously. My usual proof ...
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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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Experiences with online courses, specially MOOC?
Online courses, particularly massive open online courses (MOOC) are the current rage. I can see that having students going through the material presented at their own pace, whenever they have time, ...
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Math circles while under quarantine
I suspect I'm not the only one here who finds himself with a dormant math circle due to quarantine. I'm interested in two kinds of suggestions regarding this situation:
suggestions for running a ...
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