Presentation about MSTLTT Project
On October 16th Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin was invited to present a seminar to faculty and students at UBC Teacher Education Program about our project. The presentation was called: The Use of Modern Technology in Teacher Education: Are We Ready? This is the video-recording of the presentation:
TLEF Showcase Presentation
Our team had an opportunity to present our TLEF project to the larger UBC community during the 2012 TLEF Showcase that took place during the 2012 Celebrate Learning week at UBC. It was a great opportunity to show the work we have done and learn what other TLEF projects have accomplished as well. TLEF Presentation […]
MSTLTT Resource Makes a Difference in Teacher Education
If you still have doubts about the effectiveness of conceptual questions in teacher education, take a look at what our students (future mathematics and science teachers) have to say about them. In our physics methods course for future physics teachers we used these questions extensively. In the figure, you can see one example of a […]
Vector Components
These questions help you learn how to find vector components and describe vectors using their magnitudes and angles relatives to the coordinate axes.
Two Blocks and a Pulley
Exploration of free body diagrams, two body acceleration, and Newton’s law through the system of two blocks attached through a pulley and one of them resting on a table.
Factors Influencing College Science Success
If you are a science or mathematics teacher, you probably wondered, what your students take out of your classes beyond a college or university admission. How does your teaching benefit your students? What are the skills that they will be able to transfer to their undergraduate studies that will serve them well? Luckily, Prof. Philip […]
Have a Wonderful School Year!
Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the MSTLTT Team I would like to wish you all a wonderful school year. I hope it will bring lots of memorable events and we will have the time to enjoy and explore the beauty of science and mathematics as much as Richard Feynman did. As a gift for a […]
Polygon Angles
This problem set deals with the internal and external angles of the polygons up to an octagon.
Resistor Shapes
In this problem set, voltages and currents in resistor nets shaped like the platonic solids are deduced using knowledge about parallel and series circuits.
Crane
The physics of a crane are explained using torque and equilibrium.
Center of Mass
All aspects of a two body elastic collision are explained from a center of mass point of view.
Dimensions
Basic geometry and mathematics are used in this problem set to explain varying properties of an ascending series of n-dimensional units.
Jumping
The interaction of the earth with a jumping person is explained using the momentum principle.
Menger Sponge
The concept of surface area is explored through the iterative processes in creating a Menger sponge.
Water Tanks
Energy conservation and introductory thermodynamics are explored using this simplified model of two colliding water tanks.