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Date:
July 31, 2005
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (With Refreshments)
Venue:
G2336, Internet Technology Laboratory, (Lift 7,
2nd floor)
Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Fee:
US$50.
Registration:
To attend this tutorial workshop, conference
participants should check the registration category "Tutorial
Workshop 3" on the conference registration form.
Abstract:
Through an innovative combination of standard Web technologies, the
Web-based Mathematics Education (WME) system delivers
classroom-ready lessons that are well-prepared, interesting,
effective, as well as interoperable. Lesson pages contain easy to
use manipulatives to help students understand and explore
mathematical concepts and skills through hands-on activities. WME
has the potential to foster a new paradigm for supporting and
delivering mathematics education and the potential to improve
mathematics curricula exponentially.
Pilot projects of WME in middle school classrooms begin to
demonstrate the desirability and practicality of a Web-based
mathematics education. WME aids teachers with delivery of
high-quality materials and provides the entire class with instant
communication and discussion. Additional features enable teachers to
easily tailor lessons to suit the needs of their classes, to assess
student comprehension and progress in real-time, to help individual
students overcome difficulties, and more. WME’s architecture, site
organization, enabling Web technologies such as GeoSVG, actual
learning pages, user interactions, teacher controls, and plans for
the future–including trial deployment in China–will be presented
with the aid of live demonstrations. Experiences of in-class trials
at an Ohio middle school will also be discussed.
Outline:
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Presentations
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Demonstrations
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Participant Hands-on Activities
Biography:
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A Ph.D. and faculty member from MIT,
Paul Wang became a Computer Science professor (Kent State
University) in 1981, and is currently a Director at the
Institute for Computational Mathematics at Kent. Paul is a
leading expert in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC).
He has conducted over forty research projects funded by
government and industry, published eight textbooks, many
also translated into foreign languages, and released many
software tools. He received the Ohio Governor's Award for
University Faculty Entrepreneurship (2001). Paul supervised
10 Ph.D. and over 25 Master-degree students. His main
research interests include Internet Accessible Mathematical
Computation (IAMC), enabling technologies for and classroom
delivery of Web-based Mathematics Education (WME),
polynomial algorithms, as well as parallel and distributed
SAC. He continues to work jointly with experts in other
disciplines such as Visual Communication Design and
Mathematics Education in research and curriculum
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Xun Lai has Master's degrees in both
Mathematics and Computer Science. He is a Ph.D. candidate in
the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University,
OH, USA. He received Outstanding Academic Achievement each
year during his study at Kent State University. He did
research in Control Theory and Numerical Analysis when he
was a graduate student in math at Zhongshan University
(China) and Kent State University. His current research is
on Web technologies for mathematics teaching and learning.
In 2003, he joined the research group led by Dr. Paul Wang,
Director of the Institute for computational Mathematics at
Kent, and participated in the Web-based Mathematics
Education (WME) project. Xun is using SVG, an XML
application, to develop GeoSVG, a geometry manipulative
authoring system that supports teaching and learning
mathematics on the Web.
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Related Links:
General information about the tutorial workshops
Primary and Secondary School Workshop: Effective Deployment of
Innovative Technologies for School-based Educational Development by
Prof. Horace Ip
Tutorial
Workshop 1: Distance Learning on SCORM by Dr. Timothy K. Shih
Tutorial Workshop 2: ProLEARN - From Content
Delivery to Knowledge Management by Dr. Denis Gillet and Dr. Peter
Scott
Queries regarding the tutorial workshops should be
addressed to the Tutorial Chair Howard Leung by email to
howard@cityu.edu.hk. |
