Students need to be teachers. I’m of the strong opinion that nobody has mastered an idea that they can’t explain and communicate to others. It’s important to give students the opportunity to take on the role of a teacher. For...
In my previous post I shared some of my favorite features of the Desmos Graphing Calculator. In this post I want to share how Desmos is changing the way math is taught and experienced in the college classroom. Math for...
What is this calculator I’ve been hearing about? Desmos is the graphing calculator I could only dream of having when I went through high school. It has a beautiful layout, it solves equations (numerically), it works with lists, and it...
Recently I had to make a video to introduce our new placement tool to students. Several people asked about the graphics in the video, so I am sharing the details in this post. Click below to watch the video. ...
At the beginning of the summer I wrote a post Revamping College Math Placement about our new placement exam policy at NSC. This post is a follow up report to share our progress. Previously we had been using the Accuplacer...