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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach upper level math and found that teaching and classes were not difficult.  [b]Creating the slides and doing problems out on the computer was really cumbersome.[/b]  [/quote]

How were creating the slides cumbersome?  Didn't you already have the slides?  I agree working out the problems on the computer is tricky. [/quote]

I don't know anyone in math who has prepared slides to use from "before."  We're all making them up.  In math it is a little more cumbersome because of all the special characters, exponents, etc.  Now there is an equation writer software to help write equations but there still are a lot of steps.  For example, with the equation writer software you can fractions so you don't type 3/4 (slanted fraction bar is NOT good) anymore but it still takes 6 or 7 steps to type 3/4 correctly, without a slanted fraction bar.

the only acceptable way to write a fraction is using a horizontal fraction bar
[u]3[/u]     not 3/4
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I'm the special ed teacher above, and I'll say that I make my slides by handwriting on an iPad, and taking screenshots, I often drop in photos of manipulatives.  If I didn't have an iPad, I think I'd handwrite on a whiteboard and take pictures.  I also screenshare from my iPad and write as I talk, or show virtual manipulatives a lot.

I may be teaching a lower level of math than you, although the calculus teachers at my school tell me they do the same thing.

To answer the top PP, for me at least I can't use the same materials from before, because before I might have set it up with physical materials, and had the kids look at them.  Or I would have taught with a game that doesn't translate online.  So, all my materials are either new, created by me, or new to me but created by someone else. [/quote]

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