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How to Conduct Interactive Mathematics

Teaching with Autograph?
Arthur Lee
The University of Hong Kong

Follow this link for more resources and details.

http://arthurlee.weebly.com/autograph-resources.html

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 TSM

Technology for Secondary/College

Mathematics
rich resources for busy math teachers
http://www.tsm-resources.com/index.html

No other software gives teachers such control, and features,

to illustrate and clarify mathematical concepts
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CLASSROOM TOOLS - UNIQUE TO AUTOGRAPH

http://www.tsm-resources.com/autograph.html
On-screen mathematical keyboard (can be used in all other computer applications)
Autograph is designed to work fully with an electronic Whiteboards and Tablets

Scribble tool: the perfect tool for prediction – reinforces conceptual understanding
Belongs to Autograph, so it does not disappear like the Whiteboard writing tools.
Rub-out tool

Slow Plot Mode – gives the teacher full control over the plotting
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VISUALISATION TOOLS - UNIQUE TO AUTOGRAPH

Animation Controller, allows you to control the motion of mathematical objects

Dynamic Constant Controller, for completely flexible control over your objects
You control the step dynamically - so much better than fixed slider-bars

10 zoom options, giving full control over what is displayed

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online activities
THREE PAGE TYPES – UNIQUE TO AUTOGRAPH
Statistics page: single-variable analysis, with wide variety of diagrams and tables

2D page: graphs (including IMPLICIT), shapes (transformations), vectors, matrices

Differential Equations, Polar and Parametric equations; Calculus (including Area)

http://autograph-maths.com/activities/douglasbutler/
3D page: graphs (including IMPLICIT), shapes (transformations), vectors, matrices
Lines, planes, surfaces, Polar and Parametric equations; Calculus (including Volume)
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LINK WITH MS OFFICE – UNIQUE TO AUTOGRAPH

Easy pasting of data in and out of Excel

Easy pasting of screenshots and tables of values into Word

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Finally: Autograph uses standard user interface conventions, so no special tricks to learn!
Easy ‘true-notation’ equation input, no need to pre-define constants, and no “command-line”.

http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/autographact.htm

http://autograph-maths.com/activities/simonwoodhead/

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 online

http://autograph-maths.com/activities/douglasbutler/

http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/autographact.htm

http://autograph-maths.com/activities/simonwoodhead/

Open files via free online player

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 outline

Interactive Math Teaching with

◆ best practice
◆ images and modelling
◆ real data and exploration
◆ making and visualizing 3D models

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 download

Download Files
http://www.tsm-resources.com/autograph.html data files image files

pyramid_net BabyWeightData(1132) disc1 smiley tan_angle

pyramid_net2 disc2 tan_graph

BabyWt
lines_4points
pyramid_net3 babywt1a lines_4points

rotate
babywt1b
tetra_net1
Sunrise (Geneva)
babywt2a

parabola1
babywt2b

parabola2
Weights all

parabola3

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 best practice

Best Pedagogical Practice

1. Set up the problem
2. Predict the answer
3. Show the answer

see demo here

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slow plot

Enhance interaction
with slow plot and
scribble tool.
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 whiteboard

Get ready for interactive teaching

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 keyboard

On-screen Keyboard

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 graph paper

Graph Paper Format

choose graph paper format or

show sub-divisions

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 constant control

Constant
Controller

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 task

Sample Task: Derivative and Tangent

show derivative

when slow plot is

turned on, tangent
is shown as the
derivative is traced

the trace stops at

critical points and
continues with the
pause button

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 derivative

Sample Task: Derivative and Tangent

right click the original function
and hide it

double click the original

equation to edit it;

while the original graph is still

hidden, the derivative graph is
updated

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Graph Sketching Task

with the original

graph hidden,
discuss about the
nature of the critical
points

use the point tool

to add new points
on the derivative
graph, near the
critical values

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Graph Sketching Task

use the scribble

tool to mark the
sketch the graph
around the critical
point

click one of the point on

graph, use the up /
down arrow to move it
to the hidden graph at
the corresponding x
value

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 sketch

Graph Sketching Task

the original graph is

shown again,
compared with the
previous sketch

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 tangent

Work on shapes and graphs

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 image

use real images and contexts

http://www.tsm-resources.com/images/index.html

download data and images

http://www.tsm-resources.com/autograph.html

or http://www.tsm-resources.com/useful-files.html TSM-IMAGES TSM-DATA

Adrian Oldknow’s page about images and modelling http://www.adrianoldknow.org.uk/Page3.htm

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Insert Image

Drag and drop image files to insert.

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Exploratory Data Analysis with real data

download data and images

http://www.tsm-resources.com/autograph.html

or http://www.tsm-resources.com/useful-files.html TSM-IMAGES TSM-DATA

Using Autograph with CensusAtSchool Data http://stem.org.uk/rx5jt

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 data

Weigh luggage but not people?

http://youtu.be/5wsjALS1I_k

Birth Data Distributions - Which variables

are normal?

http://youtu.be/MeJ9tj49NLg

Fitting trigonometric functions to periodic

data

http://youtu.be/PZQI7ujWVTU

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 best fit

Best fit to Data

With a DATA SET and ANY y = f(x) graph with constants:

This will find (by least squares) the best value of the constants to fit the data, e.g. y = asin(bx +
c) + d. Select the graph and use the option “Update Results Box” to obtain a list of the
constants.

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Exploratory Data
Analysis

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data

zoom in for details

of data

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 data

copy and paste

raw data from
spreadsheets

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 data

convert raw data to grouped data

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 model

3D Modelling

http://autograph-maths.com/activities/simonwoodhead/

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 revolution

Solid of Revolution

turn to x-y enter equation of function, plot

orientation as 2D equation

click the curve and find area

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Solid of Revolution

click the area

and find
volume

number of division is
in slow plot adjusted in animation
mode, the solid setting
generates
gradually

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 revolve

mix and match

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 nets

Explore other pyramid nets: predict

angles between faces while folding

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Tetrahedron Net

Use the constant

controller to change
the angle between
faces and fold the
net.

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Inequalities

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 matrix

Matrix
create 4 points, group them to make a shape

select the shape and make

a matrix transformation

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 matrix

Matrix
enter the drag the
matrix original
shape

the image
is shown

add base
vectors; move
the shape along
the axes
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 sampling

a single sample of size

5 with mean 500 sample means, n=200
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Probability Distribution
user defined probability distribution; dot plot and histogram
from data generated

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 3D

3D coordinates, vectors and surfaces

enter equation of plane or other surfaces

a point on
the normal
through the
origin

equation

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3D coordinates, vectors and surfaces

add points and vectors on the plane, create cross product

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