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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

Summary


We've covered a great amount of work in this chapter. We saw how Moodle can be used to allow our students to explore complex geometric concepts in a truly hands-on way using the GeoGebra tool. We also learned that using the GeoGebra filter means we can integrate activities developed in GeoGebra in an almost seamless way. Specifically, we covered the following:

  • How to install and use GeoGebra, the idea of a GeoGebra worksheet, and how to include one in a Moodle course

  • The difference between static and dynamic worksheets and how to create both

  • How to create a powerful, interactive proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

We've spent a good deal of time making our courses interactive and engaging, and so far we have been doing all the work. My students now need to start exercising their understanding of the Pythagorean Theorem. Let's learn how to create a Moodle quiz emphasizing question types that are especially useful in mathematics teaching.