Portfolio

The diverse nature of our work provides us with the opportunity to create a wide-ranging set of materials for educators. These include interactive applets and online courses, among many others.

You can find examples of our evaluation work on our projects and publications pages.

The list of resources below represents a small amount of all the curriculum development, applet, animation, and video work that COPE has done. Please feel free to contact us to see what we can do for your organization.

NameProjectDescription
Applet: Volumes of Cylinders, Cones, and Spheres Columbus Online Curriculum Project This applet allows students to rotate 3-dimensional shapes and provides the formula for finding the volume of each shape.
Applet: Hidden GPS in Northeast Africa digNubia This applet gives students an opportunity to use triangulation skills to find the location of a GPS transmitter on earth, based on the position of 4 satellites in space.
Video: Understanding Student Thinking Department of Defense Education Activity Online Courses This video was used as part of a professional development program for high school math teachers. The video shows one student and one teacher discussing the mathematical concept of "altitude."
Technology and Universal Design for Learning Bookmark NEIRTEC This printable bookmark contains a number of electronic resources for helping teachers with curriculum design and technology tools that support Universal Design for Learning.
Excerpt from MathScape Teacher Guide MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically The MathScape curriculum seeks to help middle school students a conceptual understanding of mathematical topics. This lesson, from the unit entitled "Mathematics of Motion," is taken from the 8th grade curriculum.
Animation: Tiling the Garden Beds Optimizing the Impact of Online Professional Development This animation shows a number of different ways of thinking about an algebraic pattern. It was used as part of an online professional development course about teaching mathematics.
Online Professional Development for Teachers Quick Tour Optimizing the Impact of Online Professional Development This Tour introduces the use of Online Professional Development (OPD) Courses. It describes the most common approaches to OPD, examines one approach in detail, and shows how different online media work together to deliver a rich learning experience.