Unfortunately the workshops at JMM are canceled for 2023.

Questions may be directed to <workshop@openwebwork.org>.

WeBWorK will be in the MAA Pavilion of the exhibit hall for Mathematical Association of America‘s MathFest in Philadelphia Aug 3-5. Make sure to stop by the booth to learn about the exciting new features in WeBWorK 2.17.

Also if you can volunteer for a time slot to help run the booth (no experience necessary!). Contact vandieren@rmu.edu to sign up for a timeslot.

The WeBWorK Project (TWP) is excited to announce that we have officially been established as a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization.  This brings our official classification in line with the underlying philosophy and goals of the Project, and opens up significant opportunities for our continued operation, development, and promotion of the WeBWorK open-source online homework system.  Thanks to Robin Cruz, past
president of TWP, for spearheading this work!  With our new characterization under the United States tax code, donations to TWP may be tax-deductible.

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Back in 2019 Andrew Parker and Marianna Bonanome received funding from Santander Bank via the City Tech Foundation to re-design the achievement images and create a leaderboard feature for WeBWorK. If you’d like to use the new badges, here they are!!

Just use them them to replace the images in your file manager –>/html–>/achievements.

Don’t forget to enable achievements by going to “Course Configuration”–>”Optional Modules” and set “Enable Course Achievements” to ‘True’.

Achievements

So excited for the OPL Code Camp happening today 7/6/2021, through Friday 7/9. Here is the link. Please join us if you have a few free hours as we have tons of problems to vet!

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From our colleague at the Borough of Manhattan Community College:

Dear Math faculty colleagues, 

I hope the end of your semester went well. I am a math professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York. I just finished an NSF grant in which we created three free math games that you might consider using in your class this summer or in the fall. They can be downloaded to PC or Mac, or to ipad/iphone. More information is available at https://mathgamesforstem.wordpress.com/. 

The games span in level from basic algebra through precalculus, and are a great way to breakup the class time in long summer classes and in co-requisite classes – you can take 20 to 30 minutes to have your students play the games in class and it really brightens the mood and gets students actively engaged. If you are in-person, students can bring their phones, tablets or laptops to class and share them (it’s more fun for two students to play together). If you are online using Zoom or other video conferencing, you can screen share your own game play and have them tell you what to play next! They can then play the games themselves at home and send screen shots of how far they got. If you are online asynchronous, they can post on the discussion board about which game they liked the most, including a screen shot of their favorite part. 

The games are highly exploratory and interactive and have many levels, for students of all abilities. One game helps with solving equations, from simple all the way to absolute value and quadratics. Another explores line shifts and slope, including trig functions at the highest levels, and the third shows how equations of lines can be used in context. The three games were developed for a summer bridge program, taking students from high school into community college. 

The website explains more of how to use the games, and has download links. I hope you enjoy playing the games with your students, and if you like, drop me a line about how it went! 

Finally, if you are working on a Math Education degree, you might consider studying the effect of these games in the classroom. I have some preliminary data, and would be happy to help anyone who is interested in doing more! 

Dr. Kathleen Offenholley

Professor of Mathematics

Borough of Manhattan Community College

City University of New York (CUNY)

Increasingly WeBWorK content is being created and implemented for Physics, Chemistry and Engineering courses. Our contributors have created a wealth of rich content. Please join Todd Ruskell (Physics Department, Colorado School of Mines), Agnes d’Entremont (Department of Applied Science and Mechanical Engineering, UBC), Jennifer Kirkey (BC Campus and Douglas College) and Steven Fiedler (Chemistry Department, Fitchburg State University) as they lead a discussion focused on next steps for creating, organizing, curating and sharing non-math WeBWorK content. So if you are looking for content, have content to share with the community, have thoughts about content organization and/or would like to volunteer to help out – this is your chance! We hope to see you there!

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Paul Seeberger of LibreTexts was kind enough to present to the CUNY OER WeBWorK fellows this past Friday. See his presentation on creating a LibreText and embedding WeBWorK problems into it.