Showcase of Student's Work

Spearville math students are learning various technologies such as GeoGebra, LaTeX, MathCasting (making movies with Camtasia Studio), and basic web development.

Dylan Walker

Matthew Cornitius

Development Notes:

Oct 25 - We only just got our new laptops unpackaged and loaded last week.
We will begin working with GeoGebra (as a class) shortly.

Today, two of my Geometry students (Brittany and Johnathan) participated in an experiment with me. They helped by creating a GeoGebra file each and its accomanying HTML (web) file. My objective was to get them onto our shared drive and transfered to my laptop as simply as possible. Thanks guys!

Nov. 9 - I have shifted my focus for this page. Instead of just displaying our GeoGebra files, this will be the hub for all student's "Portfolios." Most of my Geometry students have consstructed a segment bisector and an angle bisector, and written step-by-step instructions for this task. My Algebra 1 students have recorded mathcasts (movies) while solving various problems. I am very proud of them all.

I want to make special mention of Greg Schutte. We are learning a little bit of LaTeX (a very technical, math type-set language). Greg asked me how to create a "ray" symbol over two characters. I had no idea, so he took it upon himself to read one of my manuals and figure it out. He then got on the SmartBoard and showed the rest of the class how to do it. Way to go Greg! Thanks for the help.

Nov 29 - Algebra 2 students are building different sized matrices in Excel. They are demonstrating their knowledge of scalar multiplication, addition, and matrix multiplication. The final step of this process is to upload them to their website(s).
Click here for a simple demonstration if a dilation (scalar multiplication) that I put together. My purpose was to get a dynamic graph on the web. If actually works, provided you have Microsoft's "web components" (part of Office) installed on your machine.