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Watching the pretty awesome algebra2go video on conversions. Here is my conundrum. Okay, first that he goes rolling all the way through multi-step and multi-dimensional conversions in the same fell swoop, though that has its advantages, and if I’m a teacher I can break it up — and a student could, too. […]
February 14, 2014
So I’m riding home and pondering how to organize the program for Lab 4. Where should I set the color that will be used to display a bar graph bar and the text accompanying it? What goes inside the loop walking through the array of items, and where? And… woven through it all… *WHERE IS […]
February 13, 2014
It occurred to me going through the planning of our next lab that… I’m using a *ton* of actual algebra (as well as algebraic thinking) figuring out the graphics and the assorted loops. This might, in part, explain the teacher’s enthusiasm about improving basic math & algebra skills. First quiz and I got the […]
February 13, 2014
Listened to the audio-pdf I made of my “explanation of the big powers of i.” Ewww. Must make more for the sake of vanity, and practice the voice I used in my first Camtasia video, which I made next to a room with students so I was trying to be clear enough for […]
February 13, 2014
Some of the attempts at real-whirldliness are a tad absurd. Let c be Calfin’s savings, and write an expression for “73 less than twice Calfin’s savings.” Just pondering, ever so briefly, what “real world” situation would have me *subtracting* twice the amount of what I have saved from 73. Hopefully it was short term […]
February 10, 2014
Seems McGraw Hill acquired ALEKS last June (and separated their “financial” part of the corporation from the educational). Pondering. When a company has financial products and educational products, is it much of a leap to suggest that educational materials are commodities to be produced, marketed and sold as efficiently as possible (as opposed to as […]
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February 14, 2014
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