Website
of Michelle
M. Beckman
Mathematics Lesson Plans and
Applets for Teachers and Students
Math Tools for
Teachers:
Using the programs Geogebra, Winplot, WMC
Grapher, and more, I
have created several lesson plans and applets accessible to anyone with
internet connection. Geogebra is
a program that is perfect for Geometry, making shapes, working with
angles, and graphing. Winplot is
more useful for graphing purposes-- graphing derivatives, finding roots
and extremas, etc. WMC Grapher
is also good for graphing and adding text to graphs when making
homework/tests.
>> To download any
of these programs, click on the links above and follow the installation
directions. All are great technological tools to have and use!!!
Along with the lesson plans are applets that students can access at
home to reinforce what they learned in class and help with any homework
assignments.
Students are able to re-walk themselves through the steps
of a problem/concept and understand anything they may have missed in
class.
Math Lessons:
Click on any of the follow links to
see a particular lesson plan with Instructions.
Lesson on Dividing a
line segment into five equal pieces
Lesson on Planar
transformations
Lesson on
Solving a system of linear inequalities
The applets that go along with each
lesson are available below for students to access at home.
These
applets are
interactive, meaning students can drag a slider to see individual
steps, can move certain parts of geometric shapes, and can plug their
own equations into the programs. Applets are very useful tools for
follow-up assignments and homework problems for students. Although
Winplot cannot be interactive
on the webpage, students can still use the applet to check graphing
assignments--This is
especially useful for the particularly icky functions that do
not show up the way we want them to on the TI graphing calculators.
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Math Tools for
Students:
In order to review and
enforce what we learned in class, here are several interactive applets
that you can access anytime. Just click on the link of any lesson you
want, and you will be able to click and drag the slider to walk through
the steps one at a time (the ones using Geogebra). Also, some of the points, lines, and
shapes are moveable, so feel free to drag these parts around to get a
better understanding of how the concept works. Often, the principle
holds even when the shape is changed.
You can take your time
understanding how we get from one step to the next. Each step has an
explanation that will hopefully help when doing homework assignments!
I also have some homework solutions posted here so you can review your
answers.
Applet
on Dividing a line segment into
five equal parts
Applet on Planar transformations
Applet on Solving a system of
linear inequalities
Instructions on
Derivatives and integrals with graphing calculators
Homework: Analyzing functions
beckman.michelle@gmail.com
Updated
December 12, 2008.