RECSAM Hands-on Workshop on Technology for Secondary/College Mathematics
Introduction to Teaching Mathematics with MuPAD Computer Algebra System
- Place: SEAMEO RECSAM, Penang,
- Date: 3-5 April 2007
- Web page: http://www.mathpad.org/2007/recsam/
- Organizer: Jerome Chavez, jeromechavez@yahoo.com
- Workshop Facilitator: Dr. Miroslaw Majewski
SEAMEO RECSAM stands for the Regional Center for Education in Science and Mathematics of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization. The center was established in 1995 and since this time it is a major place for training mathematics and science teachers, as well as doing research in mathematics education, in the South East Asia.
SEAMEO RECSAM is located on a beautiful island Penang in Malaysia.
RECSAM Hands-on Workshop on Technology for Secondary/College Mathematics is the first workshop on using information technology organized at RECSAM. The workshop will cover fundamental skills necessary for using Computer Algebra System MuPAD in mathematics classroom. After completing the workshop participants will be able to:
- Open, save and export MuPAD notebooks
- Use MuPAD to demonstrate problems in calculus of one and two variables, algebra, analytic geometry, and statistics
- Produce interactive graphs of functions in 2D and 3D, and save them as images for publishing and web pages
- Produce complex animations and save them in the form o video files
- Have some idea about basics of programming of mathematical applications
- Develop their own notebooks for mathematics teaching.
Workshop Schedule
Monday 2nd April 2007
14:00-18:00 Check-in at Hostel
Tuesday 3rd April 2007
08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30-10:30 Session 1 – Introduction to MuPAD Computer Algebra System
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-13:00 Session 2 – Introduction to data visualization with MuPAD
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Session 3 – Hands-on session on developing teaching resources using basic functionality of MuPAD
Wednesday 4th April 2007
08:30-10:30 Session – Introduction to developing mathematical graphs
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-13:00 Session 5 – Mathematical graphs part II
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Session 6 – Hands-on session on developing and using graphs and animations
Thursday 5th April 2007
08:30-10:30 Session 7 – Precalculus of one variable with MuPAD
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-13:00 Session 8 – Precalculus of one variable, part II
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Session 9 – Hands-on session on developing teaching resources for precalculus of one variable.
16:30-17:00 Presentation of Certificates
MuPAD Notebooks for the Workshop
