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Abstracts for Session 1
Friday, 8:45am
- 1A. Gene Klotz, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA,
Using the World Wide Web for Teaching Mathematics:
What Are We Learning and Where Do We Go From Here?
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In this session we will explore the Web with its virtues and
challenges. These virtues include
communicating/collaborating/sharing, publishing, and help with
teaching. The Internet has given us all the opportunity to share our
mathematical ideas, teaching examples and materials. Publishing on
the Web allows for animated and interactive content and immediately
makes available relevant and current real-world materials. Student
publication possibilities provide motivation and student 'ownership'
of material. And the Web is useful for conveying course materials,
homework, and helping us understand how students learn - or fail to
learn. The Web also challenges us with technical problems, not
finding what we want, not providing everything we or our students need
in terms of materials or software, and not having equal access. We'll
talk about problems with the Web, what's being done, and what we can
do.
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