Creating Meaningful Visualizations for Teaching Mathematics: Discussion
Wrapping Up Unit 3
Visualizations help educators teach, and students learn, with understanding. Visualizations help learners make sense of the content material and solve problems. Some visualizations are more useful than others. Learners need to make sure they allow themselves enough space to create visual aides to breakdown problems.
It is important to keep in mind that some visualizations can be misleading for viewers. This is a problem we tend to see most frequently in geometry diagrams. Carrying this idea forward, educators need to make sure that students create and/or interpret visualizations using the information provided in the problem and not solely by looking at the diagram.
Assignment
In the discussion tab, participants will make contributions to advance the current topics discussed in Unit 2. Participants will write a minimum of two posts and will either share something he/she learned, pose a question to the class, offer constructive criticism, or build on another participant's idea.
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Mini-Course: Using Visualizations to Teach Mathematics with Understanding (Spring 2015 Mini-Course)
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