50 Most Popular Posts

Mathematics and Multimedia is nearly five years old. So far, it has more than 1000 articles that hopefully have helped and entertained mathematics teachers, students, and enthusiasts around the world. Out of the 1000+ articles, below are the top 50 posts in terms of the combined number of shares via social media network.

I think that they are really useful based on number of shares, so you might want to check them out.

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Socrative: A Student Response System

One of the new entries in Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning for 2013 is Socrative, a free and online student response system.

In Socrative, a teacher may create a free account where he can create different types of questions – multiple choice, short answer, and trueーfalse. The teacher can then invite students to the virtual room where student can send their answers via computer, tablet or smart phone. The answers can be viewed by the teacher on a computer and can be projected to an electronic whiteboard. Student answers on multiple choice questions can be auto-graded.

Socrative has pre-designed “exit tickets” where teachers can use to collect student thoughts . In addition, it also generates reports that can viewed using Microsoft Excel or Google Spreadsheets.

The video below is a short introduction about Socrative.

Create Latex Documents with Lyx

If you are creating a lot of scientific documents or numerous documents that contains math equations, then you might want to check out Lyx. I have been using Lyx for a week and I really like it.

Lyx is a free and open-source document processor built on top of the Latex typesetting system. It has the power of Latex, so it can be used to create books, notes, theses, and academic papers. It is free and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX and OS/2.

lyx

Lyx has a lot of great features, some of which are listed below.

  • Graphical user interface with menus
  • Automatically numbered headings, titles, and paragraphs, with table of contents
  • Copy paste to and from Latex source code
  • Bibtex support
  • WYSIWYG for cropping, rotation, and scaling of images
  • WYSIWYG table and math editors
  • Export to Docbook, SGML, XHTML, and plain text
  • more
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