Creating & Using a Blog to Enhance Math
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1. When you select Define you ll see another dialog box A dialog box or simply dialog is a window like the one shown to the right where you can select Define styles options and settings Simple C Advanced In the Define Styles dialog you ll see a Fri ere TTimesNewRoman sd Cancel couple of radio buttons labeled Simple SU EE Times Mew Roman hal Help and Advanced We ll go over each of these E Sumbol and MT Extra Simple is the one you ll use most often lf talic variables Apply In the selection labeled Primary font the E font you choose will be the font MathType Italic lower case Greek Factory settings will use for text function names variables Use for new u equations vector and matrix names and numbers Normally you ll want all of these to be the same font but we ll see in a minute how to make them different You ll probably want the Primary font to be the same font you re using in your document MathType doesn t know what font you re using in your document so it s important to set it here The selection labeled Greek and math fonts isn t normally changed You ll see you have only two options there anyway Symbol and MT Extra and Euclid Symbol and Euclid Extra You likely won t see much difference between these two choices so leave it set as you see above At the lower right of this dialog is a final checkbox labeled U2. you have that option but chances are you won t want to Notice there s a User 1 and User 2 size Use these similarly to the way you d use a User 1 or User 2 style So what s a Smaller Larger Increment Notice back up on the MathType Size menu pictured at the bottom of the previous page two items near the bottom are labeled Smaller and Larger If you want to make an item or items in your equation smaller or larger than the surrounding items in the equation you can select them and repeatedly select Smaller or Larger from the Size menu until you get the size you want How much smaller or larger MathType makes them is determined by the Smaller Larger Increment on the Define Sizes dialog BEWARE It s generally not a good idea to highlight an entire equation and select Smaller or Larger because the results will almost certainly not be what you wanted see below If you want to increase or decrease the size of an entire equation the best way to do it is by changing the Full size specification You may want to deselect the Use for new equations checkbox 2 Example 10 pt x 18 pt X 10 pt plus 8 larger applications x2 Notice that the 18 pt expression is proportionally correct but the 10 pt equation that was converted to 18 pt by repetitively clicking larger on the size menu has an exponent that is too large That s because both the base and the exponent are increased by 1 pt each time
3. and 0 8 0 91 Find the areas of the two parts of the rectangle Then find the total area of the rectangle think the game is fair 2 8 Cross out templates are available in MathType but not Equation Editor page 17 What else can I do with MathType that I can t do with Equation Editor MathType includes over 200 symbols and templates that are not included in Equation Editor Some of these are shown here Examples gt x l OY SaoORITK In addition MathType 5 includes the ability to include a tilde hat arc or harpoon vector barb over more than one character It also includes cross out templates for showing cancellation 44 ftf 60 se 2640 ft Yo see 1 min Color MathType 5 lets you color all or part of an equation or use multiple colors in a single equation Examples AB min Y 2 This is great for making captivating PowerPoint presentations or for printing color transparencies on an ink jet printer Web publishing MathType lets you save your equations as GIFs to use in your web documents MathType also generates MathML an XML based markup language that is the W3C standard for publishing mathematics on the web MathType 5 includes features that let you make great looking Web pages directly from Microsoft Word These Web pages retain equation numbering and referencing include the MathZoom feature to allow easy readability of small characters and print in word processing quality directl
4. Creating amp Using a Blog to Enhance Math amp Science Instruction Presented by Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science Inc E mail bobm dessci com Twitter afwings y i YE Design Science How Science Communicates March 2 2012 Welcome to Creating amp Using a Blog to Enhance Math amp Science Instruction Your students already use social media text messaging chat Facebook and who knows what else All teachers want to be able to reach all of their students in the most effective ways possible so why not use methods they re already comfortable with This session will introduce you to some of these avenues of social media Although l Il touch on wikis and a few other media this session is primarily concerned with blogs This is not a session about how to use MathType but if you use MathType and need help in the future the following sources are available v MathType Help Both Equation Editor and MathType have extensive help files In fact the entire content of the MathType User Manual is now incorporated into MathType Help MathType version 6 and later v Math Everywhere and Anywhere We have additional help on our website for using MathType with many other applications and websites www dessci com interop Y Tips amp Tricks This is the newest feature of our website MathType Tips amp Tricks Periodically we post new tips that help you get the best use out of MathType a
5. Define Styles dialog Subscript Superscript ae One of the major Sub Subscript Superscript z E ke differences is the symbol Mele presence of a SUb symbo l preview window User 1 7mo x o ame The preview window User hiso z xl Use for new equations Factory settings doesn t show you the actual equation you may be working on but it does give you an indication of what exactly will change if you change the setting that s highlighted to the left of the preview window For example in the picture above the only thing that will change in that sample equation when change the Full size setting notice the 12 is highlighted is the X In MathType the size setting called Full is the setting that you want to be identical to the text size in your document If you re typing a test and you re using 11 pt type size make sure the MathType Full size is set to 11 pt Notice the rest of the sizes except Smaller Larger Increment are specified as a percent Percent of what These are percentages of the Full size The beauty of leaving these set as percentages is that once you set them you never have to change them If you change the Full size from 10 pt like you may use in a quiz to 32 pt like you may use in PowerPoint or on an overhead transparency you don t have to change the other sizes because they re still proportionally correct If you want to set these other sizes as point sizes
6. athType Help file under MathType Reference Keyboard Shortcuts e The Equation Editor Help file Reference Information Keyboard Guide Also note that in MathType when you point to an item with the mouse the description and keyboard shortcut are displayed in the Status Bar gt MathType Equation in Algebra 2 Final Exam doc Seles Edit View Format Style Size Preferences Help MathType displays description and keyboard shortcut information in the status bar Equation Editor displays 1 only the description d Full size fraction Ctrl F S_ Add or subtract Use models as needed Examples of uses you may not have considered for MathType Sixth Grade Examples Three drawings are shown What would the next 7 Find the quotient 24 120 60 three look like Special symbols may be inserted into a matrix by OQ Oo O Q finding the symbols with O OO Math Type s Insert Symbol E dialoa on the Edit menu Find the value of this expression 12 9 x 6 1 OA 0 0 Bb ANION Compare Use lt gt or to complete th statement a 5 3xI 5 3 x1 b 445 42 Write a variable expression foy this model Squares represent ones shaded rectangles represent variables ii en O O Uu aie a BALAA a pencils bells b stars airplanes c bells stars 10 Stefan and Wanda played a game and completed the table below a 7 1 b 12 a Find Probability stefan wins
7. e 10 These have math capabilities Really good Free Web 2 0 Apps Sites I Recommend Perfect for math science teachers Wolfram Alpha http www wolframalpha com There s a special MathType translator for W A Chat IM SMS Chatzy http www chatzy com advanced htm Contxts http contxts com SMS business cards Text MrMathType to 50500 for mine Twitter Poll Everywhere http www polleverywhere com Good for adding polls to PowerPoint slides Can be used for warm ups or mid lesson retention questions but no math capability PowerPoint Twitter Tools http www sapweb20 com blog powerpoint twitter tools Visible Tweets http visibletweets com visualize tweets sent by your class Free websites blogs wikis Wordpress http wordpress com Absolute best free blogs math capability use the Texve translator in MathType 6 0 and later Zoho Wiki http wiki zoho com Built in equation editor but it s easier to use MathType Good resource websites amp articles Setting up and Introducing a Collaborative Student Math Wiki http bit ly collaborative wiki What is Social Media free e book PDF http bit ly what is social GREAT blog follow it amp read it often www teachscienceandmath com Some of their stuff e To Blog or Not To blog in Science or Math Class http bit ly wPsgNG e Making the Most of Wikis in Your Science or Math Classroom http bit ly wasUXP Guide to 140 Learnin
8. ediately Like blogs there are numerous wikis from which to choose recommend Zoho wiki zoho com Strategies for using a wiki in mathematics teaching from Using Wikis in Math Classes see Appendix 1 for URL of article e Problem solving e Real world math e Problems of the week e Glossary of mathematical terms e Collaborate with other schools e Visual arts e Case studies Twitter For a good brief video introduction to Twitter 2 minutes check out Common Craft http www commoncraft com twitter Facebook Most everyone s familiar with Facebook but in case you re not it s the equivalent of a cocktail hour where you may now amp then associate with people you ve never met but mostly you hang out with your friends You can post status updates to let others know what you re doing what you re thinking where you re going or just about anything else you want You can post videos and photos join groups join fan pages page 4 put things on the calendar and on amp on Privacy is a concern but if you re careful you don t really need to worry about it Facebook is also not very good for communicating math but there are still some very good ways a math teacher can use it One of the best ways to use Facebook for your class is to start a Facebook group for your class Students in the class can join the group and write on the wall on the group s page You are automa
9. eps above for both the WordPress and Blogger blogs you or anyone else reading your blog such as students or colleagues can copy or drag equations from a blog post and paste or drop them into MathType Once in MathType they act like and can be used like any other MathType equation in Word PowerPoint another blog post etc If you copy amp paste an equation and you choose to use the contextual menu i e right click or ctrl click don t use the Copy Image or Copy Picture command Just click Copy MathJax MathJax www mathjax org is an open source also free solution for displaying math in web browsers It works for all browsers on all platforms It works for web pages in general not just blogs but you can adapt many blogs to work with MathJax One big advantage of MathJax is that it doesn t use images to display the math so you can zoom in and out without the equations losing quality and you can style equations with foreground and background color and to some extent font You can t use MathJax with a wordpress com blog Although you can use it with a wordpress org blog l Il not cover that here but you can find instructions for it at the MathJax website Here s how to do it in Blogger MathJax in Blogger Simple process to get MathJax working in Blogger 1 From the left sidebar of the Dashboard click Layout 2 Beneath the Header section of Layout click Add a Gadget 3 Scroll down until you f
10. g How to use Twitter Facebook and Google Buzz for Social Learning http www c4lpt co uk 140Learning More Challenges with Wikis 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active http bit ly wiki challenge PLN Yourself http suewaters wikispaces com Describes Personal Learning Networks Using Wikis in Math Classes http bit ly math class wiki When The Empire Makes The Rules some thoughts on cell phone use at school http bit ly phones in class page 11 Example sites I used during the presentation and a few others These are in the same order in which they appeared during the presentation Precal Blog Mr Byrne http prec alcul us Good example of scribe blogging Algebra 2 With Trig Kate Nowak http a2t910 blogspot com Mix of scribe blogging and teacher posted lesson material Yr 12 Physics Page Jane Coyle http coyleyspages wikispaces com Good examples of science wikis Mr Lamb s Math Wiki Jim Lamb http mrlambmath wikispaces com Integrated Math Advanced Algebra wikis good examples Teaching College Math Maria Andersen http teachingcollegemath com Despite the name there is plenty here for teachers of all levels of math MathType and WordPress me http mathtypeequation wordpress com Step by step instructions for using MathType with wordpress com both getting equations into a WordPress blog and copying them from a WordPress blog to use somewhere else Note that these are inst
11. ind the gadget labeled HTML JavaScript and click the to the upper right of that gadget HTML JavaScript Add third party functionality or other code to your biog By Blogger page 8 10 11 12 Give it whatever title you want it won t show on the blog MathJax seems like an appropriate title In the Content area paste this code lt script type text javascript src http cdn mathjax org mathjax latest MathJax js gt config TeX AMS MML_HTMLorMML gt lt script gt Click Save When the Gadget window closes you should be back on the Layout screen so click the orange Save Arrangement button near the top Watch carefully the only indication your changes have been saved will be a quick pop up to that effect Now you re ready to post Write the text of your post normally and when you re ready to include math choose MathType s MathJax LaTeX translator from Cut and Copy Preferences dialog in MathType s Preferences menu Create your expression in MathType then cut or copy it and paste it into your blog post Note 1 If you want your math to be part of your sentence instead of in a paragraph by itself you must choose the Inline Equation property from MathType s Format menu Note 2 Your math won t look like math until you preview or publish your post Until then it will just look like code Here s what a sample post might look like while you re still writing editing it before Preview or Publish wot
12. it and paste it into WordPress Slatex r sqrt x 2 fy 2 S Note that it won t look like math until you publish or preview the post Here s one more Slatex displaystyle sum limits_ i 1 n X_ i 2 page 6 4 If you want to check the look of your math either Preview your post or Publish it MathType in WordPress Blogs Using MathType in WordPress blogs is simple In MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose WordPress from the list a the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy it and paste it into WordPress x y Note that it won t look like math until you publish or preview the post Here s one more n 2 SX i 1 r If you need to edit or delete a post hover over the name of your blog in k gt Math Equations in Bl the top nav bar then click Dashboard Once you re on the Dashboard click Posts All Posts Once there you can edit or trash any post you want If you Dashboard Jh want to unpublish it and keep it as a draft perhaps to use again next Edit j year click Edit then change the post s status from Published to Draft w More help with WordPress com For a guide on how to use wordpress com see http learn wordpress com Blogger As was the case with WordPress describing the sign up and log on process with Blogger is a waste of time Once you re ready to start blogging here s the way Writing po
13. it very readily and like to interact with their friends this way many teachers are seeing a great deal of success by using these means of communicating with their students We ll be looking at blogs but these forms of social media are also important Ask yourself How can use this in teaching e Wikis e Twitter e Facebook e Email page 3 Blogs The word blog is taken from the words web log but is more than a simple diary hosted on the internet There are dozens of blogs to choose from but for ease of use features amp adaptability to use by math amp science teachers recommend wordpress com see Appendix 1 page 11 Since this session deals primarily with blogs there is a more in depth discussion on page 6 Uses for a blog scribe blogging e explanation of concepts e embed PowerPoint or other slides amp notes from class e announcements e practice problems We ll see how to get math into a blog in a later section Wikis A wiki is more of a total website than a blog is though either can be used in place of a typical class website Wikis are more adaptable to class collaboration because they re designed precisely for collaboration You re probably familiar with Wikipedia and the fact that anyone can sign in to Wikipedia and edit a page Of course such edits are very closely monitored by other editors and things like incorrect information blatant advertising etc are removed nearly imm
14. n the first thing to do is determine the type of delimiters it uses Some apps enclose the math in tags like tex tex and others use more standard delimiters like or You may be able to find a translator in the Equation for application of website group of MathType s Cut and Copy Preferences dialog but if not you can probably be successful by typing the delimiters manually and using the Zoho Writer translator which doesn t use any delimiters e Some Web 2 0 apps like Zoho Writer and the old Google Docs have their own equation editor In many cases like these 2 mentioned you can choose a translator from MathType and paste your equation directly into the editor Most of the time their editor is simple enough but using MathType keeps you from having to learn another editor or from having to learn LaTex page 5 Blogs already gave my recommendation to use WordPress but the fact is there are literally dozens perhaps hundreds of blog hosts that you can use My WordPress recommendation is based on its customizable features general ease of use and ability to use math expressions and scientific formulas easily In this session l Il show both WordPress and Blogger WordPress There are two types of WordPress blogs wordpress com and wordpress org They re both free The difference is that you can get a wordpress com blog directly simply by going there and signing up for one A wordpres
15. nd save time in the process www dessci com tips v Handouts Whenever present a session like this one at a conference post my handout on our web site for a year You can access this handout and others at www dessci com handouts v Technical Support We provide lifetime technical support for MathType For technical support gt Phone 562 432 2920 gt Email support dessci com Please provide your MathType Product Key when you write You can find your Product Key by clicking About MathType in the MathType Help menu gt Web www dessci com click one of the Support links A collection of support notices at the site covers most topics for both Equation Editor and MathType hort Iti Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science Inc 140 Pine Avenue 4 Floor Long Beach e California e 90802 USA 562 432 2920 562 432 2857 fax info dessci com www dessci com Technology Technology can be a great way to enhance or augment your lesson but it s not a substitute for you The point to this session is that you can reach many students electronically simply because you have their attention Many of them will get involved writing for the class blog or answering homework questions that wouldn t otherwise spend much time on math outside of class When will we ever have to use this Surely your students never ask you this Of course they do and you may get tired of hearing it but it
16. o Times New Aoman the effect of a variable s coefficient on a graph or you want the student to do so so you choose to have the variables in Times New Roman italic but the coefficient in Times New Roman bold italic For example could say Describe the effect on the graph of the function when the value of a increases y ax bx c In this example used User 2 style for the coefficient a The Size Menu setting the sizes Preferences Help Just like MathType automatically changes the style depending on the types of w Full Subscript items contained in your equation it also changes sizes For most of your Sub Subscript equations you ll just leave the size specification set to Full When you type an Symbol exponent MathType knows you want it to be smaller than the base so it Sub Symbol 7 re be ieri switches to Subscript size Likewise if you re teaching sequences and series User 2 and want to enter a summation template MathType knows to create the Sigma Other symbol larger than the surrounding variables and numbers so it switches to Smaller Cte Symbol size Even though this switching is automatic you still have control Larger Ctrl gt over what sizes MathType uses when it selects these special sizes To specify these sizes select Define at the bottom of the Size menu Define page 14 The Define Sizes Define Sizes dialog is quite different from the Full
17. ructions for wordpress com not necessarily for a WordPress blog hosted on your own website such as FatCow or HostRocket offer Math in Blogger me http mathinblogger blogspot com Step by step instructions for using MathType and MathJax with Blogger or Blogspot blogs page 12 Setting MathType Fonts amp Sizes the Style and Size menus You most likely want your equations to match the text in your document PowerPoint presentation or web page so you need to know how to change the fonts amp font sizes in MathType The Style Menu setting the fonts See bese se You ll see several style names listed on the MathType Style menu but the y Math Cilt one you ll use most often is called Math Actually Math isn t a style of its Text Ctl Shift own it s a combination of other styles MathType is smart enough for oe a example to know that when you re typing sin 4 x you probably want Variable Ctl Shit y Greek Symbol Ctrl Shift 4 the variable and the lower case Greek letter to be italicized but not the Vector Matrix function name or the number Thus MathType switches between Function User 1 Ctrl shift U Variable Greek Symbol and Number styles as appropriate Number isn t User 2 Ctrl Alt Shift U a Dii a style you see on the menu but it is a separate style of its own as we ll Fee s i bf Ml 4 1 see in a minute To set all this up select Define at the bottom of the Define hy menu
18. s a valid question The question is just as valid for the topic of this session You can also ask yourself Why does it matter to my students Whatever the answers to those questions you don t want your message to look or sound like this Charlie tt Brown s teacher That s what some people hear when we start using words like summation square yy u root tt variance future value standard deviation etc We all use math every day is a slogan made popular by a television show but it s fairly accurate Since we all use math it s not that great of a leap to hone the skill of communicating math What is Social Media Wikipedia gives a fairly complicated definition of social media but for our purposes consider that social implies two way interaction so social media is any medium of communication that allows interaction Television for example would not be considered social media but a homework help forum on the internet would be And so would a class blog whether it contains practice problems students help instructions to each other practice quizzes or anything else pertaining to the class Social media are also examples of Web 2 0 Like social media Web 2 0 apps all have some sort of interaction capability between participants Why is Web 2 0 important to me as a math teacher For the simple reason that it s important to your students Since most of them adapt to
19. s org blog must be hosted on a network server somewhere at your school through a hosting service like FatCow or HostRocket or even in your home basement A wordpress com blog is quicker to get from nothing to blogging but a wordpress org blog gives you more control over things like additional plugins templates widgets etc This session will cover only wordpress com blogs but an article on our website covers both www dessci com wordpress We won t cover sign up here because it s so simple a cave man can do it and many of them do Once you do that get your blog looking the way you want it by choosing a theme etc That s all part of the setup process Writing posts with math W Wath Equations in 1 Start anew post by hovering over the WordPress logo in the l P New Post upper left corner Click New Post Give your post a title assign it a category ies and tag s and start writing eee 2 Whenever you want to insert an expression open MathType In MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose WordPress from the list at the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy it and paste it into WordPress 3 At first your expressions won t look like math expressions at all Using MathType in WordPress blogs is simple In MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose WordPress from the list a the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy
20. se for new equations This is checked by default and if you leave it checked all subsequent equations you create will use these same font settings until you change them again If you re just wanting the next equation to have a certain special look but want the rest of the equations to look like the equations before the one you re working on uncheck this box page 13 After everything s set the way you want it click OK and the dialog closes Now click on Style Define again and Define Styles this time select Advanced You ll see the dialog that s pictured to the right C Simple f Advanced This is where you would make special settings like if you wanted all the Font Character SIE Lancel numbers in Arial and the rest of the Saf elle Help equation in Times New Roman for at Times New Roman E E some reason Notice also the boxes Function Times New Roman a Apply labeled Bold and Italic Check or Variable Times New Roman eee M j Factory settings uncheck as desired By the way L C L C Greek E m Greek is lower case Greek Guess U C Greek Symb E qy Use for new hat U C Greek is ERNE A Symbol E User 1 and User 2 styles are not Wectorblatis Times New Roman v normally used but when you need Number fe em n them they re quite handy One Suteki MT Esta o example where you may want to use Courier TE a User style is if you re discussing HR a aa Oa O E G
21. sts with math Using Math in Blogger 1 If you ve just created the blog click Start Posting Otherwise log eee en eas in to Blogger and click New Post New Past Design Sign Out 2 Whenever you want to insert an expression open MathType In i MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose WordPress from the list at the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy it and paste it into WordPress 3 Unlike in WordPress your expressions will look like math right away Using MathType in Blogger blogs is simple In MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose Google Docs from the list a the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy it and paste it into Blogger r y Here s one more Ti X That s all there is to it Pretty simple page 4 Ifyou want to check the look of your math either Preview your post or Publish it MathType in Blogger blogs Using MathType in Blogger blogs is simple In MathType s Preferences menu choose Cut and Copy Preferences then choose Google Docs from the list a the bottom Create your expression in MathType then copy it and paste it into Blogger r yz y2 Here s one more That s all there is to it Pretty simple 5 Ifyou need to edit a post hover over the icon that looks like a pencil Click it edit a the post and click Update i Re using equations in from blogs For the st
22. tically an admin when you create the group but you can appoint others as admins and can even rotate this duty among the class whenever you want to switch admins YOU have total control over who joins the group and what they can post to the group s wall Email There are any number of reasons why you may not want your students emailing you and vice versa but there are probably just as many reasons why you would want to use email only you can decide Assuming for the moment that you think it s a good idea MathType makes it very easy to include math notation in these email clients e Gmail e Outlook Express e Hotmail e Windows Mail e Outlook e Yahoo Mail If your school has a site license for MathType the license allows students to use it as well home computers laptops etc Getting math into Web 2 0 apps and other websites Many Web 2 0 and software apps already have capability built in to MathType To see if your software website or web application is supported look in MathType s Preferences menu for Cut and Copy Preferences Scroll through the list at the bottom For the apps that don t have built in interoperability with MathType there are a couple things to try e For apps that don t have any math capability at all LaTeX or otherwise the best thing to try is the Google Docs translator and either copy amp paste or drag amp drop the equation from MathType e For apps like that have LaTeX built i
23. y from the browser Equation numbering Not everyone needs to number equations or include references to equations in the text of a document If you are a textbook author or write manuscripts for journal publication you will appreciate the fact that MathType can number and reference your equations automatically when used with Microsoft Word Precise formatting ruler You get a sophisticated word processor like ruler for precise nN lI eae poo formatting Align columns at operators decimal points or set tab stops to make 34 i formatting easier and to give your documents a more professional look This example 3 s3 cannot be duplicated exactly in Equation Editor for two reasons cross out templates 73 7 and ruler formatting fractions aligned at right edge with a right justified tab New spacing adjustments possible e Radical check mark width adjustment 2 RD no e Subscript and superscript horizontal gap x x x e Slash and diagonal fraction gap 4 M e Horizontal gap between fence templates parentheses brackets braces etc and their contents x 4 x 4 x 4 e Stroke thickness for box lines strike throughs radical signs etc 120 O AA AB AS fS a page 18
24. yA LNG pS vo D pu Wel oa al Do VE put pte SENTENCE MSTA ui wa paragraph by itself you must choose the Inlme Equation property from MathType s Format menu Here is an example of an inline equation r sqrt x2 y 2 Here is an example of an equation that is not an inline equation also called a display equation mathop lm lmuits_ x to ity irac 1 ix 0 Here s the same post after publishing it Ii wi ed ukh wh eh krka ba ET ed era A a r al oe n shou eloa A m J i s F CLER the Inline Equation property from MathType s Format menu Here is an example of an inline equation r x y Here is an example of an equation that is not an inline equation also called a display equation lim 0 xo X have on my sample blog these instructions where describe using MathJax in Blogger http mathinblogger blogspot com 2012 03 using mathjax in blogger html Remember an advantage of MathJax was that you can zoom in without losing quality This may be necessary if you need to read small superscripts or other tiny equation parts Compare 1 lim Before After page 9 Appendix 1 Free Web 2 0 Apps Sites Recommend page 11 2 Example sites used during the presentation page 11 3 MathType quick reference e Setting fonts amp sizes page 13 e Keyboard shortcuts page 16 e What else can I do with MathType that can t do with Equation Editor page 18 pag
25. you click on larger page 15 Keyboard Shortcuts The keyboard shortcuts built in to MathType are listed in the Help file You ll find that most of the shortcuts are so intuitive that you can learn them quickly though and be able to use the software even more efficiently to create professional looking documents Many of the shortcuts used in MathType are standard shortcuts such as CTRL S for save CTRL C for copy CTRL V for paste etc On the Mac most of the time you can substitute the COMMAND key for the Windows ctr key Listed here are some of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts TOME Oe a EE E EE SHIFT CTRL E Math Mode ccccecccsecceeceeccesceeecceeeeeenees SHIFT CTRL Greek lete nno CTRL G followed by corresponding letter of the alphabet a for a b for B etc Expanding parentheses c ccssccssesseeeees CTRL 9 Full sized fraction template ccecceeee CTRL F Radical square root cccecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees CTRL R Superscript CXPONENT cccceeeceeeceeeeeeeees CTRL H h for high COMMAND E on the Mac UDSO aa E E CTRL L Z for low EEE AC RA I E N CTRL SPACE Insert equation in Word ssessssessessessesrrsees CTRL ALT Q Edit equation in Word cccecceeceeeeeeeeeeees ALT O select the equation first For more keyboard shortcuts you can refer to e Customize Keyboard in the MathType Preferences menu e The M
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