Welcome to an open source
arithmetic course offered to anyone completely free
as part of the 2012 AZSCITECH Festival.
In this video, I will give a brief background
to how the course was created, and then we'll
enter the course to show all of its features.
At the end of the video, I'll provide contact
information for anyone who wishes to register
for the course.
I hope you will find this course helpful.
I've been creating open source math resources
for almost two years now, but it wasn't until
recently, that I was able to combine open source
videos that I've created with open source eBooks
and an open source assessment program to create
standalone, complete courses.
For the arithmetic course, I combine my videos,
with the Pre-Algebra text written
by College of the Redwoods,
with an online assessment program called WAMAP,
or IMathAS, written by David Lippman.
The open source arithmetic course consists
of seven modules, and the topics are whole numbers,
integers, fractions, decimals, ratios and proportions,
percentages, and the fundamentals of algebra.
So, let's go take a look at the course.
Once registered for the course,
this will be our log in screen.
The first thing we want to do here is select
Force Image Based Display, and then log in.
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Once we're logged in, we'll see the course here
on the left so if we click on here, we can enter the course.
Notice the first thing we see here is a calendar,
but since this is an open source course,
there are no due dates.
Otherwise, the due dates would be posted here.
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Next, we see the announcements.
If we click on this, I have a welcome announcement here.
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Again, this course is available to you to review
all of the major topics covered in an arithmetic
or a Pre-Algebra course.
This course contains several features to help you
successfully learn the concepts and test your understanding.
This course offers a complete management system
designed specifically for mathematics,
including online assessments that provide instant feedback.
Again, this program was written by David Lippman
of Pierce College.
Here's a link for how to enter your answers.
A complete eBook written by College of the Redwoods,
which you can download or purchase here.
And then, video lessons and video examples, produced by me.
Under the Announcements section,
you'll see a Discussion Forum.
There are two forums here.
This first one is for general feedback about the course.
So, I hope you'll provide your honest feedback
to make this course better.
And then, there's the Math Lounge,
which is the place you can actually post
your math questions, and this is where students
can help students learn the concepts.
So if you have a questIon from an assessment,
you can copy and paste it here.
All of the math content is organized in a way
that's very similar to a textbook.
Notice how we have seven modules.
If we click on the first module,
each module is broken down into sections,
again, just like a textbook.
So if we click on Section 1.1,
there will always be three subsections within each section.
The first link will be to the textbook
for that specific section.
The textbook is in PDF form,
so this can be printed or saved.
The next section consists of the videos.
And, there are two types of videos.
There are video lessons and video examples.
So, the lessons develop the topic from the very beginning,
and the examples are just additional examples.
These are all hosted on YouTube,
and are from five to 10 minutes.
So if we click on this video,
you can watch the video and take notes as needed.
Welcome to our lesson on place value and whole numbers.
The goals of this video are to define counting numbers
and whole numbers, determine place value of whole numbers,
and then write whole numbers in expanded form.
And, there are also the video examples,
which have the graph paper background.
We want to round 48,526 to the indicated place value.
So after reading the textbook and watching
the videos, you're ready for practice.
So if we enter into Homework 1.1,
we have a problem set here.
If we come to a question that we need help on,
most of the questions do have a video help option here.
So if we're not able to identify the correct
place values for this number, we can click
on this video help option.
This opens up a new window, and it'll work a similar
problem to the problem you're asked to solve.
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In this problem, we're given the number
53,981,476 and we want to identify
the place value of each of these given digits.
Now, the homework questions do have
an unlimited number of attempts.
There are two attempts per version of the problem.
So if we miss this problem twice,
we can try a similar problem,
which means this number will change,
but we can still get full credit for the question.
So if we happen to miss this question,
we'll click submit, and it'll show us
that we missed the question.
We have the option to reattempt the last question
or try a similar question.
If we reattempt this question again,
and miss it again, notice how the only option
now is to try a similar problem or similar question,
but notice how it also does give us the answer,
so we can use this as an opportunity to review
the concept as well.
So notice how now, we have a new version
of the same problem.
Notice how there's also an option to jump
to the answer if we want to see the answer
before working the question.
Of course if we do this, we would get
a new version of the same problem for credit.
So once we work through all of the sections
and all of the homework, notice how here we have
an optional practice test for the entire module.
This is a good review of the entire module,
and then we can test ourselves on the Module Test.
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So, each module is laid out in the exact same way.
So if we click on a module, we have the sections,
and then within each section, we have the textbook,
the videos, and the online homework.
Notice at the bottom of the Homepage,
there's also a final exam to review
all of the topics from the entire course.
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If you would like to register for this course,
again it is completely free.
Please contact me, James Sousa,
at mathispower4u@live.com.
I hope this course proves helpful.
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