A Novel Mathematical Communication Tool to Overcome Barriers to Active Participation (66218)
Session Chair: Daniel Mills
Saturday, January 7, 2023 (13:55)
Session: Session 4
Room: 322A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The covid-19 pandemic forced a rapid shift to online communication that continues to transform the post-secondary educational experience, in particular, changing the way students interact and collaborate with each other and how they communicate with their instructors. However, there exist technological barriers to the quick real-time communication of mathematical content online as quantitative knowledge requires the digitization of mathematical expressions which may require the use of many special symbols not represented on a keyboard and have a nested hierarchical structure with a two-dimensional layout. In this talk, we describe a new real-time communication tool that uses a novel input method for mathematical expressions and we provide study results to show it is more effective and intuitive for students than existing methods. We also provide case study results to show how this new communication tool can be used to overcome traditional communication barriers that exist in the mathematics classroom. This includes the relatively low levels of active engagement in post-secondary mathematics lectures compared to many other disciples, as well as the even lower level of participation by certain groups, such as women and/or English-language learners.
Authors:
Marco Pollanen, Trent University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Marco Pollanen is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Trent University in Canada
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