Category: Teaching Tools

Compass and Straightedge Construction with Robocompass App

Audio, Video and Animation, Resources and Freebies, Teaching Tools, Web 2.0 Technology

After introducing Primo, a new math game, I would also like to introduce Robocompass app, one of the latest online apps for compass and straightedge construction. It was only released three weeks ago.

Robocompass is an application that allows users to type commands and then turn those commands into an animated compass and straightedge construction. What is good about this application is that it has a 3d environment which allows the user to view the construction in any perspective. Constructions in Robocompass can be saved in Google drive and can be embedded in websites. Watch the introduction video and see the embedded file below.  » Read more

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Socrative: A Student Response System

Teaching Tools, Web 2.0 Technology

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.

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Create Latex Documents with Lyx

High School Mathematics, Latex Typesetting, Teaching Tools

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.

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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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