In our e-learning studies many times happen that students do not know how to pronounce a formulae.
It has been developed a verbalization tool to show how a mathematical formula is readen.

It allow e-estudents to know how to read a formula and to gain confidence when they study. It is important to know that we looked for something easy to use, and something that is present only if student needs it, in order to not disturbe.

You can tested the tool in:

http://cimanet.uoc.edu/cursMates0/IniciacionMatematicas/s1/1_1_1.html
It can be found in catalan as well as in spanish.

Dear JEM interested parties,

thus far we have not found it so I am hereby launching the quest for a repository of mathematical competencies.

Once could say that national curriculum standards contain so but this is done a very informal way so we, in intergeo, are looking for something more repository like.

thanks in advance

Paul Libbrecht
The ActiveMath Group

Is there any interest on JEM installing a connexions server?

Is there any interest in JEM hosting a WebWorK server for test purposes?

Gosh!

This has sparked a random thought: If answering a mathematics question is used as this test then we have a couple of tricky issues to resolve.

(1) a CAS is often much more accurate than a person with a complex "symbol-pushing" calculation.

So, what happens if the computer incorporates a CAS as an attempt to fool this test?

(2) people are nororiously poor at basic logical reasoning. Have a look at the "Wasson Selection test" as a prime example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task

In using technology to teach and to lecture, one is bound to make mistakes - whether it is the style file or the software or the animation not working, I am sure we all experienced some "demo effects" that have taught us lessons. I will start with mine:

• Green is a bad color for projectors not only it is one of the major combinations in colorblindness (red-green) but it is also very hard to read when the background is light, e.g. white.