This short video is ripe for exploration in all geometry classrooms. Plus, I would love to see Unlimited Detail Technology powering a game on my XBox.
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Estimation Calculator
Peter Malcom, a fellow graduate student in the Instructional Technology program at UVA who needs to update his website, just sent me a working flash prototype of an estimation calculator. The estimation calculator provides students with scaffolded, visual feedback about estimating answers to addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems. The working prototype is below the …
Using Hollywood to Teach Mathematics and Economics
cc licensed flickr photo shared by TW Collins I must qualify the following words by saying, “For the past ten hours, I have been reading/thinking about game design and the adaptation of commercial games as each applies to education.” Both lines of inquiry seem like a happy, welcomed educational endeavor, but approximately ten hours into …
The Dy/Dan iPhone App, part Deux
Too often individuals perceive mathematics as a set of isolated facts and procedures. Through curricular and everyday experiences, students should recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas. [It should include problem solving as a] means of engaging in a task for which the solution method is not known in advance. Students should have frequent opportunities …
iPhone: The Math Trail App
I built the prototype above in Flash with the hope of visually describing an iPhone application (app) that I see as potentially useful and educationally unique. It’s a bit different from the drill-and-kill educational apps that appear in iTunes.
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