Authoring Online Material with Multimodal, Dynamic and Interactive Applets and Automated Feedback for Learning Math
Below is what has happened during our project time, which is lot’s! For a deeper insight into our aims, activities, and results please check the menu above.
If you already know all about us, and you want to start working straight away with what AuthOMath has to offer, click here: Try, Tinker, and Use.
Digital tools are increasingly present in the mathematics classroom. GeoGebra has gained popularity in secondary education for its ability to generate dynamic representations. STACK (System for Teaching Assessment using a Computer Algebra Kernel) is emerging as a promising tool that allows generating tasks with random data and providing specific feedback on errors made by students.
The AuthOMath project, funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, has dedicated two and a half years to the integration of these two tools. Its main objective is to offer teaching guidelines for creating mathematical tasks that incorporate dynamic materials and provide feedback adapted to students’ errors.
To present the advances achieved by researchers from the Heidelberg University of Education (Germany), the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the Johannes Kepler University (Austria) and the University of Cantabria, the Discovering AuthOMath conference is organized at the Faculty of Sciences from the University of Cantabria. This event, aimed at secondary education mathematics teachers, will take place on Wednesday, May 8.
After two successful years AuthOMath will come to an end in May 2024. We have plans with continuing the project in a follow-up. Although we do know what issues need to be addressed we need your help with justifying the new objectives to the funding body.
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Implementing GeoGebra dynamic and interactive applets in STACK’s question and feedback offers a lot for high-quality task design.
Members from the AuthOMath project talk about their ideas how to explore the possibilities of interactivity and adaptivity with GeoGebra and STACK.
Watch their videos on stack-assessment.org: Klick
The project results are now available. On 3 February 2024, we are planning an event at the Heidelberg University of Education entitled “Mathematical Tasks: Digital and Interactive” with lectures and workshops. What exactly can you expect and how to get there?
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Exciting news!
Our project result AuTo has gone public! With STACK 4.5 out now, people can implement GeoGebra applets easily into their STACK questions. One of the big goals of our project has finally been reached.
Many thanks to all involved, especially our project member Tim Lutz, who has been working on the code from early on.
For all those who would like to know how to implement GeoGebra applets into STACK 4.5, see the documentation here: http://docs.stack-assessment.org/en/Authoring/GeoGebra/
And for all those who like to see AuTo in action see here: https://www.authomath.org/?page_id=170
María Sanz-Ruiz gave a presentation entitled “How is STACK useful for learning about linear equations? / ¿Qué utilidad tiene STACK para aprender sobre ecuaciones lineales?” at the IV Congreso de Estudiantes de Doctorado: Tradición, Desarrollo e Innovación en Didáctica on Thursday 23 November 2023.
The event, which took place virtually, was organised by Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania), Johannes Kepler University (Austria), Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina) and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Uruguay). In her presentation, Maria focused on solving linear equations. A summary of the presentation is available in the proceedings.
At the invitation of the Department of Mathematics Didactics, Guido Pinkernell gave a lecture on “Activating feedback in digital task formats” at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Here are the slides: Click
In the framework of the Science Week of the University of Cantabria (13-24 November 2023), the Faculty of Science hosted an outstanding exhibition and poster competition, in which several research groups actively participated. Among them, the Open STEAM group presented a sample of their work in the framework of the AuthOMath project through the poster: ‘Resolviendo ecuaciones lineales con STACK / Solving linear equations with STACK’. We are pleased to report that the corresponding poster was awarded with the second prize!
Mathías Tejera and Cecilia Russo delivered a presentation at the I International GeoGebra Conference, which took place at the University of Cordoba in Spain from November 9 to November 12, 2023.
The presentation, entitled ‘AuthOMath: innovación de la enseñanza de las matemáticas a través de la integración de GeoGebra y STACK / AuthOMath: innovation in mathematics teaching through the integration of GeoGebra and STACK‘ aimed to show the potential of combining these tools.
Tejera, M., Russo, C., & Ortiz-Laso, Z. (2023). AuthOMath: innovación de la enseñanza de las matemáticas a través de la integración de GeoGebra y STACK. In Congreso Internacional de GeoGebra. Córdoba, Spain.
This just came in: https://www.oth-aw.de/forschung/forschungsprofil/forschungs-und-entwicklungsprojekte/ideal/international-meeting-of-the-stack-community-2024/
Of course, AuthOMath will be present too: Guido Pinkernell will give a keynote on the project’s outcomes.