Online interactive resources for first and second year university students
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The document summarizes an online resource project created by a team of academics to design interactive science and math simulations and activities for university students. The project uses programming languages like JavaScript and GeoGebra to create dynamic visualizations of concepts. Examples provided include interactive demonstrations of calculating determinants of square matrices, combining velocities in a river current, and constructing circles tangent to lines.
Online interactive resources for first and second year university students
- 1. Online interactive resources for first and second year university students
- 2. The Project • Science and Mathematics Simulations • Team: • A/Prof. Tim McIntyre, • A/Prof. Tony Roberts, • Dr. Margaret Wegener, • Elise Kenny, • Dr. Kelly Matthews, • Dr. Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano.
- 3. The Project • Goal: To design simulations and learning activities for helping students to understand concepts in mathematics and physics.
- 4. The Project • Programming languages: Javascript GeoGebra
- 7. Rationale Interactive and dynamic visualisation
- 10. Exemplars
- 11. Exemplar 1: Square matrices Det(A) = 𝑎𝑑 − 𝑐𝑏 Det(B) = 𝑎 𝑒𝑖 − ℎ𝑓 − 𝑏 𝑑𝑖 − 𝑔𝑓 + 𝑏 𝑑𝑖 − 𝑔𝑓 A= 𝑎 𝑏 𝑐 𝑑 𝐴 = 𝑎 𝑏 𝑐 𝑑 𝑒 𝑓 𝑔 ℎ 𝑖
- 13. Exemplar 2: Relative velocity Velocity of the current Velocity of the boat VR=Vb+Vc
- 15. Exemplar 3: Conics as envelopes A straight line m and a point A are given. Construct a circle through A and tangent to the given line
- 16. What kind of technology do you use?
- 18. Thank you!