MIT Mathlets in Group Work, Module 2, Segment 1

Module Objectives: • Exemplify the use of Mathlets supporting group work during lecture • Encourage the use of Mathlets to stimulate mathematical reasoning by students One advantage to using MIT Mathlets is the ability to allow students to explore and learn collaboratively as they complete problems and projects. This module will introduce the use of Mathlets in group work by providing a recorded example from a teachers workshop. The first segment of this module contains an example of the use of a Mathlet to organize group work by students in a lecture setting. This second segment provides samples of what you can ask groups of students to do using Mathlets, inside or outside a classroom. This module is part of self-paced short course by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Haynes R. Miller, Ph.D. focuses on the use of technology in mathematics education at the university level. The course begins with an introduction and then explores the MIT Mathlets collection by providing examples of Mathlet use in three different contexts. This course was produced by the MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology with support from MIT Academic Media Production Services and the support of the Education Development Center, Inc. and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Copyright © 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.