School math, multimedia, and technology tutorials.
The Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival 11 is now online at Love of Learning Blog.
here are exactly 11 stars (together with a Moon) in Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night.
The next blog carnival will be hosted by Mathematics for Teaching and will be posted on June 13, 2011. You may submit your articles here. » Read more
This is a brilliant talk by Conrad Wolfram on using computers in teaching mathematics. This talk describes the problems in mathematics education nowadays: the wide gap between math taught in schools and math in the real world, misconceptions about the use of computers in teaching math, the wrong emphasis on the teaching calculations, and many more. Wolfram also has several suggestions on how school mathematics should be taught nowadays.
A must-see for math teachers and math educators.
This is the first part of the GeoGebra 4.0 Sneak Peek Series. In this series, we are going to discuss some of the changes in GeoGebra from version 3.2 to 4.0. If you want to have a complete view of the changes, you can read the GeoGebra 4.0 Release Notes.
If you don’t know yet, GeoGebra 4.0 will be released by the end of August this year in a few weeks . If you’re as excited as me and want to try out the new features, you might want to explore the GeoGebra 4.0 Beta release. This release is, of course, not stable (they may still change some features).
The most evident changes in GeoGebra 4.0 are the new tools. The tools, their icon, and their descriptions are shown below. Some tools have no icons yet, so I left it blank. » Read more