Intervention:

Teaching math topics

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-ontext

)nce in a .hile* I #een asked to help students

.ith math. Ma#e a home.o%k* ma#e an
exam p%epa%ation.

!ven .hen I told them /)0* hou% and a half .ill

#e enogh/* .e stick 2 o% 3 hou%s.
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Inte%vention: teaching math topics

)ve% time I developed a .a of .o%king that allo.s me to focus

on the ha%d pa%t of the su#1ect matte% to solve the main dou#t
students have.

2ut #efo%e .e #egin* the%e a%e some simple %ules:

1. The must #e constant.

2. The should exp%ess thei% dou#ts.

3. The must p%actice at home.

,. 3esponsi#le fo% achieving success is the one .ho asked

fo% help.
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Teching math topics: envi%onment
Ta#le to %evie. topics
and do exe%cises
-halk#oa%d .he%e
examples can #e sho.n
and exe%cises can #e
seen in full scale
2ooks to get %efe%ences*
examples* exe%cises and
aplications.
Music4 To %elax and
focus.
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Teaching math topics: p%ocess
Identif topics
.he%e the student
has p%o#lems
3evie. school
notes* assigments*
evaluations
Ask student to
identif .he%e he
has p%o#lems
Ask student .hat
he kno.s o%
undes%tand
!xplain #asic
concepts %elated
3emake existing
samples
3evie. p%ocedu%e
applied
Make ne.
exe%cises
Identif details
and failu%es.
!xplain st%ategies
to fix them.
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3esults

To change the envi%onment is a positive thing f%om

sta%t.

5e%sonal attention let the student feel mo%e

confo%ta#le and confident.

A ne. .a of explanation ma help.

)%gani'ation and exp%ession skills can #e enhanced.

6tudents gene%all had this /aha/ moment .hen

explanation is #%oad 7concept 8 p%ocedu%e 8 %esult 8
%ep%esentation 8 inte%p%etation9.
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:eak points

6ome students find ha%d to identif .he%e the have

p%o#lems.

6ome students have difficulties to explain;exp%ess

.hat the kno..

6ome students need to kno. something that takes

mo%e time than one da #efo%e evaluation.

6ome topics ma #e too complex to explain .ith out

p%io% %evision. <suall* familia% topics don=t need too
much p%epa%ation time.
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)ppo%tunities fo% g%o.th

The%e ma #e mo%e st%ategies and techni>ues

that can #e useful.

The%e ma #e #ette% #ooks* #ette% examples.

The%e ma #e diffe%ent %ep%esentations*

applications that a%e impo%tant fo% the student.

The%e ma #e tools to accele%ate p%actice

p%ocesses.
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-hanges

5%oposed changes additions a%e:

<se of compute% soft.a%e to:

explain concepts

6ho. %ep%esentations

5la .ith va%iations of an exp%ession 7fo% example in

alge#%a9

Accele%ate p%ocedu%es

5%actice* p%actice* p%actice4

3elate concepts

6ho. applications of the concept

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-ase: analtic geomet%

A fe. .eeks ago* a student ask me to help him

to p%epa%e a final exam of analtic geomet%.

The student had to cove% a la%ge list of topics.

)nl 2 .eeks to p%epa%e the exam. , effective

das.

Man concepts .e%e confusing fo% him.

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Math soft.a%e: ?unctions @a#

To explain concept and let the

student expe%iment .ith his
#ook examples* I used a tool I
made some ea%s ago* called
the ?unctions @a#o%ato%.

6imple to use: ou .%ite the

alge#%aic exp%ession and ou
get its g%aph %ep%esentation
7and a ta#ula% %ep%esentation
too9

Aou can keep a list of ou%

exp%essions and late% make
some const%uctions.
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Advantages

In one session .e %evie.ed themes like lines* conic

sections such as ci%cle* ellipse* pa%a#ola* hpe%#ola.

6ome minutes of #asic t%aining .ith the tools let us

expe%iment .ith the mo%e #asic examples of the #ook.

:e com#ined the speed of the tool .ith hand

p%ocedu%al exe%cises.

I made focus in t%ing to gene%ate intuition in the fo%m

of /)0* ou have this exp%ession... ho. it looks likeB
:hat is the patte%nB/
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Ideas that have name

6ome of these ideas that I used* happends to

#e some of the concepts and p%actices that
appea% on .eek 3 mate%ials:

Active lea%ning

Make* pla* expe%iment* %eflect

-onst%uctionist tecnologies

2ehavio% const%uction

@ea%n to #uild elements* then #uild st%uctu%es of elements

C%it

I admit this student had a lot of his o.n.

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Did p%ocess changeB

Dot in its essence* #ut in execution it .as mo%e

dnamic.

At home* to have a tool like this and kno.ing .hat to

do .ith it* let ou explo%e mo%e p%o#lems.

Is ve% ha%d to develop math intuition* #ut i this .a is

mo%e possi#le.

I still use the chalk#oa%d* and note#ooks .ith pen and

pencil. I #elieve its impo%tant to feel the pape% and use
ou% o.n hand .%iting.
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6oft.a%e .eak points

"ust accepts Ef7x9

exp%essions* no x E f79 and
no E f7x*9

Its a math tool* so the%eFs no

much explicit feed#ack.

6oft.a%e is a :indo.s fo%ms

application.
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6oft.a%e st%ong points

-an %evie. and .o%k .ith

math themes like:

Alge#%a

?unctions

5olnomial

AnalGtic gemomet%

-alculus
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)ppo%tunities 7technical9

!xtend functions exp%ession suppo%t.

!xtend visuali'ation capa#ilities 7fo% example*

add #ackg%ound images fo% a context9

Mig%ate technolog to make it multiplatfo%m

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)ppo%tunities 7educational9

6caffolding in fo%m of specific activities.

The%e a%e some p%oposed activities in the manual*

#ut ma #e #ette% to integ%ate them in the soft.a%e.

5%e#uild scena%ios to allo. students to sho.

thei% advances and unde%standing.

6cena%io state a goal and .hile the student

advances* soft.a%e gives feed#ak.
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-onclusions

A teaching p%ocess is needed* .ith o% .ithout

educational technolog.

!d tech tools can imp%ove %eaching and

lea%ning p%ocess.

!ven .hen some p%ocedu%es gain speed*

students need time to asimilate concepts.