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Moodle 1.9 Math

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Moodle 1.9 Math

Overview of this book

Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges. The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You'll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle. Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Math
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating charts in Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org Calc


A simple way of creating charts to include in our courses is to use a spreadsheet application and then copy them over to Moodle. In this section, we will be investigating the two most popular spreadsheet applications: Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org. Let's start with Microsoft Excel.

Creating charts with Microsoft Excel

In this example, I'm going to use Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The process we will be working through is the same for later versions of Excel. Note that it will also work with earlier versions, but you might have to hunt for the functions.

Here is a data handling question I am going to set for my students:

A workshop manager carried out a survey to find out how long people spent drinking refreshments during their morning break. Below is his data:

Time (t seconds)

Number

0 < t ≤ 30

4

30 < t ≤ 60

10

60 < t ≤ 90

15

90 < t ≤ 120

17

120 < t ≤ 150

3

a) Draw a cumulative frequency curve for this...