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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

Chapter 9. Doing More with Math and Science

We learned how to upload old mathematics exam papers to your Moodle courses (Chapter 1). We've seen that we can easily add an online discussion forum where students can discuss with teachers and their peers any problems they are having (Chapter 1). We've also learned how to include complex mathematical notation in our courses (Chapters 2 and 7) and how we can include third-party resources and activities, which are usually supplied in either SCORM or Flash format (Chapter 4). We are now able to set quizzes and tests for our students (Chapter 6) and have even looked at installing a special Moodle add-on that will recognize algebraic equivalence when checking answers (for example, 3x+4 is equivalent to 4+3x). We've also investigated including graphs and charts (Chapter 8) and interactive math exploration tools (specifically GeoGebra in Chapter 5).

I've already stated that incorporating mathematical notation in Moodle courses can be problematic (an...