For me, the best part of the day was the collaboration piece. Many people have commented about their excitement to work with and share ideas with the CyberCampers. We are also receiving helpful comments from people watching our progress.
One thing I’m looking for is a way to easily produce mathematical notation in a blog post or Word document. I’m also willing to look at other programs to use. I was looking over my notes from my practice blog last month and one complaint from my students was that it was difficult to communicate exponents, for example. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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johrt
// Jun 4, 2008 at 7:24 am
Does this Word tip help?
Select the text that you want to format as superscript (superscript: Describes text that is slightly higher than other text on a line, such as a footnote reference mark.) or subscript (subscript: Describes text that is slightly lower than other text on a line. Subscripts are often used in scientific formulas.).
On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Font tab.
Select the Superscript or Subscript check box.
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Richard
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:08 am
Well, if you’re willing to use Google Docs, you can do this:
http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocs/web/latex-mimetex-math-equations-for-google-docs
I use this:
http://www.texify.com/
To produce things like this:
[img]http://www.texify.com/img/%5CLARGE%5C%213x%5E2-2x%2B3.gif[/img]
http://www.texify.com/img/%5CLARGE%5C%213x%5E2-2x%2B3.gif
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Richard
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:15 am
Google docs will have support for entering mathematical formulae.
http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocs/web/latex-mimetex-math-equations-for-google-docs
http://www.texify.com/
I use if for writing expressions and equations. Not sure if any of these will show up correctly or not:
texify.com/$f(x) = 3x^{2}+3x-4$
[img]http://www.texify.com/img/%5CLARGE%5C%21f%28x%29%20%3D%203x%5E%7B2%7D%2B3x-4.gif[/img]
http://www.texify.com/img/%5CLARGE%5C%21f%28x%29%20%3D%203x%5E%7B2%7D%2B3x-4.gif
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Richard
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:15 am
Google docs will have support for entering mathematical formulae.
http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocs/web/latex-mimetex-math-equations-for-google-docs
http://www.texify.com/
I use if for writing expressions and equations. Not sure if any of these will show up correctly or not:
texify.com/$f(x) = 3x^{2}+3x-4$
http://www.texify.com/img/%5CLARGE%5C%21f%28x%29%20%3D%203x%5E%7B2%7D%2B3x-4.gif
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Richard
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:16 am
Google Docs is working on this very issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocs/web/latex-mimetex-math-equations-for-google-docs
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Richard
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:19 am
Google Docs will have full support for entering math formulas. Here’s what they have so far:
groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocs/web/latex-mimetex-math-equations-for-google-docs
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Kay
// Jun 4, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for that suggestion, but I was hoping for something more complete – like the ability for square roots, angle symbols, fractions, etc. I know some of this can be done through symbols in Word, but it is rather tedious for students to find each of these. When they were working last month they actually asked if they could go back to pencil and paper.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the tip! I’m going to spend some time today looking at this – it seems to be what I’m looking for! It can even be copied into Word. I’ll post later about how it’s working out. Thanks again!
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