Divide By Zero

My summer plans do not involve much blog-oriented reflection – at least until August. I’m writing this from Paris and will be on this side of the pond until then. Freedom in the summer is a perk of the trade which I greatly appreciate and intend to take advantage of.

If anyone is interested, I uploaded a video to youtube about the process I go through in writing worksheets. It’s a silent screen capture of how I would normally create a simple worksheet with equations and graphs. There are some tricks to using emacs, but I just wanted to put out a general idea of how I use LaTeX code to generate typeset math and diagrams for worksheets and activities.

The upside to this system is its professional versatility: it can handle complex equations, diagrams, graphs and more. Also, it’s entirely free, and there is great documentation available online. The greatest downside is time. A large investment of time is required up front to understand how all the components of the system go together. I’d recommend this to anyone math teachers looking for a way to write fancy math without limitations.

Tags: emacs, latex, summer, technology, youtube