Algebra
With Video Lectures
The example shown here was produced in early 2006 and is
based on our earlier plan to generate math courses based on
the Saxon Math series of textbooks. We have since decided
to consider either the Singapore Math program and/or other
materials from the Advanced Math & Science Academy
curriculum. Nevertheless, the example here shows many of
the features of Stellar Schools.
We use a course in Algebra 1 to provide a prototype of our
courseware. Of particular importance in any course is the
content and the delivery mechanisms of that content. At
this stage we have developed a course segment- equal to
about 10% or 40 pages of text. For that segment we have the
following instructional vehicles or avenues students can
use to learn the material:
1. We have written a lecture note textbook segment that we
intend to be the primary text for the course. You can
download a copy of it (written in MS Word) from our
file sharing page. A printed hardcopy version of this
will be given to each student.
2. A digitized version of this same textbook material will
be available on the student's computer.
3. As a secondary text we have adopted the Saxon Math
Publisher's book, Algebra
1. We note that
our lecture note textbook follows a similar instructional
sequence. (It would have been the primary text if the
publisher had not refused us permission to have a digital
copy of it.)
4. Closely following the lecture note textbook we have
produced the first video lecture- one of four such lectures
in this segment. The video lecture is available either as a
download from our file sharing page or you can view the PowerPoint based
video instruction from this Web Page as made available
on our Courseware Examples
page.