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Virginia Society for Technology in Education Conference. February 24, 2009 Jeffrey J. Steckroth Old Dominion University. Virtual Mathematics: Using Technology to Connect Teachers and Learners. TEACHING AND LEARNING FORMATS. Instructional Formats. Live One-to-one One-to-many Synchronous
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Virginia Society for Technology in Education Conference February 24, 2009 Jeffrey J. Steckroth Old Dominion University
Virtual Mathematics:Using Technology to Connect Teachers and Learners
Instructional Formats • Live • One-to-one • One-to-many • Synchronous • Asynchronous • Video Stream • Televised
Steckroth Research • Trigonometry • High School Precalculus classes • Radians, Reference Angles, and the Unit Circle
Tools and Findings • Mary’s radian project • Geometer’s Sketchpad • PowerPoint • SMART Board
Dynamic Image Manipulation • DIM (Bull and Garofalo, 2008)
Guidelines • Keep students involved • Enable hands-on remote participation • Provide clear instructions • Share links in advance • Minimize costs to students
Sampling Distribution of the Mean • http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/flash/sampling/samplingmean.html
DYNAMIC GEOMETRY SOFTWARE • The Geometer’s Sketchpad • GeoGebra
Sketchpad Online • Citrix Farm: The ODU Remote Lab • All students have access
GSP Projects • Math 302 Geometry • Geometric Solids
Geometer’s Sketchpad Files • Archimedes Theorem of the Broken Chord
Geogebra • www.geogebra.net • Free online software • Similar to the Geometer’s Sketchpad
SMART Notebook Recordings Made with SMART Notebook
Graphing Calculator TI-84 Texas Instruments
TI-SmartView • Multiple Representations • Algebraic • Graphical • Numerical
Solving Equations Document Camera used to demonstrate solutions.
TI-SmartView • Video Clip from Saturday class
Feedback and Communication • Live audience • Remote on camera • Remote off camera (audio only) • Video streamers (text only) • Asynchronous audience (email and virtual office hours only)
SMART Notebook • SMART Sympodium