Category Archives: Online Education

Interactive Teaching IS Possible with Virtual Learning Technologies

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Ben Blum-Smith

By Enes Akbuga, Drake University (Twitter: @enesakbuga; Email: enes.akbuga@drake.edu) and Zachariah Hurdle, Utah Valley University (Email: zhurdle@uvu.edu) Many academics and teachers have been struggling with facilitating classes virtually. The 2020 global pandemic has brought many challenges and disruptions to teaching, … Continue reading →

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The Choice to go Asynchronous: Discussion Board Based IBL

Posted on November 1, 2020 by msaul

by Tien Y. Chih Montana State University, Billings Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit during the Spring of 2020, I’ve been nothing short of impressed and amazed at my colleagues’ resourcefulness and creativity in shifting their courses to an online modality. … Continue reading →

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THE ZOOM ROOM: Vignette and Reflections About Online Teaching

Posted on September 1, 2020 by msaul

Mark Saul A child’s insight “I know how to find out how many divisors a number has. You factor it into primes….” Alejandro was with a virtual group of four enthusiastic ten year olds, in the midst of exploring a … Continue reading →

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Writing Good Questions for the Internet Era

Posted on August 4, 2020 by msaul

Jeff Suzuki CUNY Brooklyn The forced conversion to distance learning in Spring 2020 caught most of us off-guard. One of the biggest problems we face is the existence of free or freemium online calculators that show all steps required to … Continue reading →

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Flip Your Class: Social Distancing Edition

Posted on July 8, 2020 by alcuoco

Flip Your Class: Social Distancing Edition by Jeff Suzuki Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you know that one of the buzzwords in education is active learning: Be the guide on the side, not the … Continue reading →

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Online learning in the time of Coronavirus: Tips for students and the instructors who support them

Posted on March 30, 2020 by msaul

Abbe Herzig, AMS Director of Education In the midst of the upheaval due to the Coronavirus, students and faculty are transitioning to new virtual classrooms. Many of us haven’t chosen to learn or teach, but here we are, making the … Continue reading →

Posted in Graduate Education, Mathematics Education Research, Online Education, Student Experiences | Tagged education, Mathematics Education, online learning | 4 Comments

Surprise! Transitioning to online teaching

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Abbe Herzig

By Abbe Herzig, AMS Director of Education Many of us are experiencing stress as schools, colleges and universities move instruction out of the classroom. Fortunately, even if distance learning is new to you, it isn’t new, and there is a … Continue reading →

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Help! I need to teach my course online and I’ve never done this before

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Yvonne Lai

By: Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ray Levy, Mathematical Association of America This is cross-posted in MathValues and Abbe Herzig has written a companion post. Additional resources and future meetings are also available here: https://tinyurl.com/OnlineTalkshop. In times of crisis we … Continue reading →

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The Second Year of “On Teaching and Learning Mathematics”

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Art Duval

By Art Duval, Contributing Editor, University of Texas at El Paso Another year has flown by, and so it is once again a good time to collect and reflect on all the articles we have been able to share with … Continue reading →

Posted in Classroom Practices, Curriculum, Early Childhood, Education Policy, K-12 Education, Online Education, Outreach, Student Experiences, Year in Review | Tagged Active Learning Series 2015, Conceptual Understanding, Curriculum, K-12 mathematics, outreach, service learning, standards based grading | 1 Comment

Active Learning in Mathematics, Part I: The Challenge of Defining Active Learning

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Ben Braun

By Benjamin Braun, Editor-in-Chief, University of Kentucky; Priscilla Bremser, Contributing Editor, Middlebury College; Art Duval, Contributing Editor, University of Texas at El Paso; Elise Lockwood, Contributing Editor, Oregon State University; and Diana White, Contributing Editor, University of Colorado Denver. Editor’s … Continue reading →

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