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- THE ZOOM ROOM: Vignette and Reflections About Online Teaching
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- Writing Good Questions for the Internet Era
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- Flip Your Class: Social Distancing Edition
Category Archives: Online Education
THE ZOOM ROOM: Vignette and Reflections About Online Teaching
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
Posted in Active Learning in Mathematics Series 2015, Classroom Practices, Communication, Faculty Experiences, K-12 Education, Mathematics Education Research, Online Education, Outreach, Student Experiences
Tagged active learning, community, diversity, K-12 mathematics, mathematical practices, mathematical thinking, problem solving, productive struggle
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Writing Good Questions for the Internet Era
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
Flip Your Class: Social Distancing Edition
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
Posted in Classroom Practices, Online Education
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Online learning in the time of Coronavirus: Tips for students and the instructors who support them
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
Surprise! Transitioning to online teaching
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
Help! I need to teach my course online and I’ve never done this before
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
Posted in Faculty Experiences, Online Education
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The Second Year of “On Teaching and Learning Mathematics”
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
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Active Learning in Mathematics, Part I: The Challenge of Defining Active Learning
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
Number Theory and Cryptography: A Distance Learning Course for High School Students
By Matt Baker, Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology Last year, I began offering an online Number Theory and Cryptography course for gifted high school students through Georgia Tech. Fourteen high school seniors from metro Atlanta took the course in Fall … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Practices, Online Education
Tagged Distance Learning, MOOC, Number Theory, Video
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