teaching math online

Teaching Math Online

With Your Host: Dr. Julia Parra

Featuring Awesome Online Math Teachers:

Tyson Rush, Sandy Johnson, Stacey Alley, & Naomi Schmidt

Online Math Showcase

• Let’s try and peek in on a Moodle math course

Tyson Rush is a high school Math teacher and currently working on designing

courses for Blackboard. Previously, has designed blended class for Geometry,

Algebra and Adv. Algebra.

The Front page to the blended Geometry Moodle Course

Algebra 1 Weeks 2&3, 4&5 assignments and math games.

Using the Interwrite SmartBoard to introduce Coordinate Geometry using midpoint and distance

Online Math Course Showcase

• Let’s go take a peek at another online math course, this time in Blackboard

High School Geometry

Stacy Alley is employed with the Las Cruces Public Schools. She has been a Math teacher at Las Cruces High School for 11 years and an online instructor and course developer with IDEAL-NM for 2 years. Currently she is piloting an online Honors Geometry class to meet the needs of gifted middle school students for the LCPS district.

COURSE STRUCTURE

STUDENT ASSESSMENT

STUDENT ASSESSMENTFigure 1 Figure 2

Assessment created in an .rtf format

Assessment created with Examview

Mobi boardeInstruction

SYNCHRONOUS SESSIONS IN WIMBA

phschool.com

regentsprep.org

FAVORITE RESOURCE SPOTS

Online Math Course Showcase

• It’s our lucky day, we have one more online math course, this time, a university course in WebCT/Blackboard

Naomi Schmidt teaches undergraduate statistics at NMSU. She has taught in a traditional setting for 9 years and online for 5 years.

As part of her own learning process for online teaching, she earned a graduate Certificate of Online Teaching from NMSU in 2007.

She is especially interested in simple techniques for collaborative learning in math courses such as synchronous chat.

When she’s not teaching or grading (!), she’s usually working in the yard or walking the dog.

Features that work for me

• Three-tier approach to material• Use of synchronous communication

tool, chat• Use of pdf file format for instructor

feedback

Structure of my course in Blackboard

1) Learners review the course material and complete the first tier of problems, Sample Problems. Detailed solutions are provided.

2) Learners complete the second tier of problems, Pair Practice Problems, and discuss approaches and solutions in chat sessions. Chat transcript is submitted as an assignment.

3) Learners complete the third tier of problems, the Homework Problems, and submit as an assignment.

My experience with chat in my online statistics course

• What is Chat?

– Text typing, synchronous discussion, recorded transcript

• Chat is an integral part of my course

– Chat fosters improved learning outcomes

– Chat increases learner engagement with the course and each other

– Chat enables learners to teach each other

– Chat is hard for me to grade

– Learners themselves valued chat sessions!

What did learners think? ~13 out of 16 felt the chats were “helpful or very helpful in learning

the material”

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not helpful inlearningmaterial

very helpful inlearningmaterial

Frequency

“Chats were a way to compare answers with someone and let me know if I was on right or wrong track”

“Chats allowed me to ask other students for help and get their input on how to solve a question from their perspective.”

Use of pdf files

Online Math Resources

Elementary Resources• Brain Pop Free Stuff

http://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/

• WebMath.comhttp://www.webmath.com/index3.html

• Educational Resources for K-8 Kidshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math.html

• Geometry Games and Resourceshttp://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/geometry.php

• Mr. R's World of Mathhttp://mathstory.com/

Middle School Resources• Math Snacks

http://mathsnacks.org/

• Brain Pop Free Stuffhttp://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/

• Ask Dr Mathhttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/

• The World of Math Onlinehttp://www.math.com/

High School Resources

• Regents Exam Prep CenterAlgebra - http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/math-ALGEBRA.htm

Geometry - http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/geometry/math-GEOMETRY.htm

• Online Math Helphttp://webwork.maa.org/moodle 

• High School Math http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/math-hs.html 

• Interactive Mathhttp://www.intmath.com/

• Geogebra Interactive Mathhttp://www.geogebra.org/cms/

• Dimensions Online Videoshttp://dimensions-math.org/Dim_reg_E.htm

• The World of Math Onlinehttp://www.math.com/

• Connexions http://cnx.org/

• Free Online Math Courseshttp://education-portal.com/articles/Where_to_Find_Free_Math_Courses_Online.html

• The Calculus Pagehttp://www.calculus.org/

Resource for this Webinar

http://retapedia.pbworks.com/Teaching-Online-Math

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