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This page gives various applications/widgets/etc that I've created for either teaching or games. Most were created in Microsoft Office and many contain vba code. Roughly speaking there are three types of items here:

 ■Math Games
 ■Math Illustrations
 ■Productivity Tools

Picture representing a widget
Math Wheel of Fortune
Game: Spinner:
  • This is a mathematics-themed wheel of fortune game. Spin the dial, choose a letter and score points.
  • Initialize the slide before using, then reveal one letter at a time or all at once. Be sure to type just a single capital letter in the textbox to reveal it.
  • Two different files because we used two projectors: one for the spinner and one for the game.
  • It works, but I plan to sometime lengthen the game and make the spinner look cleaner.
  • Uses VBA for the spinner and game.
  • 6 quotes and brief historical reference.
Picture of the trivia ppt
Math Tic-Tac-Toe
  • This is a mathematics-themed tic-tac-toe game.
  • Essentially it has one math problem for each square. Winning team gets the square!
  • Uses VBA to create the "X"s and "O"s.
  • 9 math questions and answers.
Picture of tic-tac-toe board
Math Trivia
Game: Submission Sheet:
  • This is a mathematics-themed Trivia game.
  • Answer the most questions correctly to win!
  • Uses internal hyperlinks.
  • 8 categories each with 5 questions and answers.
Picture of the trivia ppt
Math Balderdash
Game: Submission Sheet:
  • This is a mathematics-themed Balderdash game.
  • Given a word, guess the definition, then guess whose definition is correct!
  • 20 math words definitions.
Picture of tic-tac-toe board
Cryptography Trivia
Week 1 Trivia:
  • (Download)
  • PowerPoint (.pptx)
  • 1144 KB
  • 11/11/2013
Week 2 Trivia: Week 3 Trivia: (Cumulative)
  • These are trivia games I made while teaching a cryptography class.
  • Answer the most questions correctly to win.
  • Does not include answers. (I'll add them later if I ever reuse this)
  • Each set has 5 rounds; each round has 10 questions.
Picture of tic-tac-toe board
Grade Chart Maker
Updated Version
  • This is a tool I use when creating solutions to tests and exams.
  • I like to show my students how they compare to the rest of the class, so for each question I provide a chart that marks each persons' score on that question. (anonymously, of course!)
  • If you have the raw scores for a question (or set of questions) you can paste it into this spreadsheet and have it give you a simple chart.
  • The VBA code is not the best, as this was one of my first experiences with VBA and Excel macros. But it does exactly what I want it to do.
  • As of version 8, it also and (optionally) save the charts as .png files for easy importing into LaTeX.
Picture of the spreadsheet
Grade Calculator
  • This is a simple spreadsheet to calculate students' current grades.
Picture of the spreadsheet
Test/Quiz Template (for multiple versions)
  • This is a LaTeX template I made.
  • It's for making a test or quiz with multiple versions.
  • The purpose is to make it easy to change versions by changing a single toggle.
  • This is the first version of the template - it will be updated as I find the need to add features.
  • When creating solutions, it also automatically includes the graphics created in the "Grade Chart Maker" widget.
Picture of LaTeX code
Normal and Binomial Distributions
  • This is a tool I used while teaching statistics a couple times.
  • It graphs the probability distribution function for the binomial distribution and the normal distribution on the same chart.
  • "n" and "p" are easily modifiable.
Picture of the binomial & normal charts
Coin Tossing
  • This is a tool I used while teaching statistics a couple times.
  • Consider the following event: 5 distinguishable coins are tossed and the outcome is recorded (There are 32 possible outcomes).
  • Choose a number N. This widget runs the above event N times and graphs the outcomes on a pie chart.
  • It runs slow enough to see the pie chart grow at first. But if N>50 it then speeds up.
A pie chart illustrating this widget
Last updated: 03/02/21