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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

Being Flash


If you've a game or an online interactive resource that you want to include in your course, then the chances are it's written in Flash. There are plenty of sources of free Flash games and resources out there on the Internet. Here are just a few:

Website

Details

Subtangent.com

Plenty of math games and activities (also includes worksheets and stationery—for example, isometric paper—to print out).

NRICH (http://nrich.maths.org)

Contains problems, articles, and games for learners aged 5 to 19 years.

Woodlands Junior (http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games)

Popular web site in the UK packed full of math-related games and activities.

Mathsduck.co.uk

Home of the Duck of Maths. Resources dedicated to the UK's key stages 3 and 4.

A quick search from your favorite search engine will no doubt yield many more.

Including Flash resources in your course

A simple way of including Flash resources in your course is to link to the website containing the game. For example, there...