Project description and exemplars

1. Online interactive resources
for first and second year
university students

2. The Project
• Science and Mathematics Simulations
• Team:
• A/Prof. Tim McIntyre,
• A/Prof. Tony Roberts,
• Dr. Margaret Wegener,
• Elise Kenny,
• Dr. Kelly Matthews,
• Dr. Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano.

3. The Project
• Goal:
To design simulations and learning activities for helping students to
understand concepts in mathematics and physics.

4. The Project
• Programming languages:
Javascript
GeoGebra

5. Programming languages
Javascript

6. Programming languages
GeoGebra

7. Rationale
Interactive and dynamic visualisation

8. Rationale
Learning activity

9. Website
https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/scims/

10. Exemplars

11. Exemplar 1: Square matrices
Det(A) = 𝑎𝑑 − 𝑐𝑏
Det(B) = 𝑎 𝑒𝑖 − ℎ𝑓 − 𝑏 𝑑𝑖 − 𝑔𝑓
+ 𝑏 𝑑𝑖 − 𝑔𝑓
A=
𝑎 𝑏
𝑐 𝑑
𝐴 =
𝑎 𝑏 𝑐
𝑑 𝑒 𝑓
𝑔 ℎ 𝑖

13. Exemplar 2: Relative velocity
Velocity of the current
Velocity of the boat
VR=Vb+Vc

15. Exemplar 3: Conics as envelopes
A straight line m and a point A are given.
Construct a circle through A and tangent to the given line

16. What kind of technology do you use?

18. Thank you!