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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 5. Geometry

In the previous chapter, we saw just how easy it was to incorporate SCORM and Flash activities in our Moodle courses. In this chapter we will be including tasks and activities that will allow my students to explore mathematical concepts in a much more hands-on way. Geometry is one topic in mathematics that could benefit from an interactive, online visualization tool that fully integrates with Moodle courses.

Luckily, there is a powerful, free tool we can use to create interactive geometry tasks for our students. It's called GeoGebra, and this is the application we'll be concentrating on in this chapter. What's great about GeoGebra is that there's also a Moodle filter available that allows us to include GeoGebra activities directly into our Moodle courses.

In this chapter we will learn how to do the following:

  • Install and use GeoGebra

  • Create static GeoGebra worksheets and include these in our Moodle courses

  • Investigate dynamic worksheets and learn how these can allow our students...