Wikis in the Math Classroom

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Permalink Reply by David Spencer on August 14, 2009 at 1:54pm

Wikispaces support LaTeX. All you have to do is surround the LaTeX code with [[math]] tags (i.e. one before and one after). Also, there's a free online LaTeX Equation editor at http://www.codecogs.com/components/equationeditor/equationeditor.php in case you didn't already know.

HTH!

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Permalink Reply by Bridget Perry-Gore on August 14, 2009 at 2:27pm

Thanks David,

It looked a little complicated fro grade 7/8...and me at this point. So, I exported my smartboard files as jpeg and added them as photos. It should work fine.

BTW what is HTH?

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Permalink Reply by David Spencer on August 14, 2009 at 2:39pm

Hello again,

HTH stands for hope that helps. You can check out netspeak and what it all means at http://www.noslang.com/

TTFN (ta, ta for now)

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Permalink Reply by Cal Armstrong on August 17, 2009 at 10:43am

LOL... I've never seen QLB shortened

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Permalink Reply by David Spencer on August 17, 2009 at 8:40pm

I have to agree, I've never heard that one before. I'll have to try that one out with my students to se how many of them have heard it.

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Permalink Reply by Holli B on August 14, 2009 at 3:36pm

I did know most of the netspeak terms, but I do appreciate a link to this site. I've never seen it before.

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Alex on August 17, 2009 at 8:49am

This probably isn't what you want either, but figured I'd toss it out there:
http://www.sitmo.com/latex/
This one is also LaTeX based, but a bit simpler than the codecogs one. If you demo'd how to create square roots and fractions with it, I think most of your students would catch on.

If you're using macs, the built-in Grapher program does pretty simple math formatting too, but it sounds like you want an online tool.

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Permalink Reply by Alex on August 17, 2009 at 8:56am

One more LaTeX one: http://www.texify.com

If you haven't seen LaTeX before, radicals are as simple as \sqrt{x + 1}

And fractions done like this: \frac{a^2 - b^2}{a + b}

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Permalink Reply by Cal Armstrong on August 17, 2009 at 10:49am

I've used Sitmo's editor with Grade 8s without too much of a problem... you can drag/drop the equations into GoogleDocs or Wikispaces.
I've also put the editor into the Navigation Frame of a Wikispaces wiki so that they don't have to flip between pages to create their equations.

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Permalink Reply by Bridget Perry-Gore on August 18, 2009 at 5:13am

Thanks. I just tried it again and it is actually easier than it looked. It also drag/dropped nicely into the blog.

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Permalink Reply by Cory Sheldahl on August 31, 2009 at 11:40am

Guess I should read who thread before replying....David gave exactly what I was going to say...hey I must be on the right track!

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