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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

What we have learned so far


To recap, I have uploaded a past paper to my Moodle course and have included an online discussion forum that allows students to discuss problems online between themselves and me.

One of the questions my students seemed to get stuck on involved a ladder pitched against a vertical wall. You are given the ladder's length and the distance between the bottom of the wall and the foot of the ladder. The question asks you for the height of the top of the ladder from the ground. It's a Pythagorean Theorem question, and my idea is to create a Moodle course specifically covering the Pythagorean Theorem. My Moodle admin has created the course and I've been given the teacher role. In the rest of this book, we'll be working together to create this course.