I finally found the time to update the Moodle Math Question Generator at ASchool.us today. Now it uses less of the Algebra Notation. This should enhance compatibility and reduce the load on the Moodle server. Also if you don't want to mess with the script you can head over to teacherpayteachers and download a set of pre-made moodle questions. It contains addition, multiplication, division with integer answers, subtraction without negative answers, subtraction with negative answers, square roots with integer answers, and exponents.

Here is a little bit of Algebra research that I did between students grades and their ability to do their multiplication tables. I've posted results on my aschool blog.

While I was creating a presentation today and using Gimp to crop my screen shots is seemed really slow when I was pasting in the images. So I adventured into the preferences and discovered that there was an option to increase the number of processors. I haven't done any test yet but this should at least help some of the filters work faster.

It's been a while since I've posted here. Mostly because life has been really busy. I've been working on a couple of new projects in my spare time that doesn't exist. One of them is Worksheet Share a new website where teachers can post and share their worksheets with each other and earn a little compensation for their work. Check it out and let me know what you think.

I just purchased a great external hard drive enclosure and SATA 3.0 drive and love it. The case is a Rosewill RX-358-S it has a 80mm fan and both USB 2.0 and eSATA. The fan is really quite and keeps the 500GB Seagate drive nice and cool. I had a previous IDE enclosure made by Ultra and was less than impress with its quality and performance. It was always disappearing and didn't seem to have all that great of performance. The new drive even seems to perform well on my old USB 1.0 system. The case seems to be a nice solid construction. The only thing that is different about it is the way that the had drive connect to the board in the computer but it doesn't seem to be a problem. I got the silver case but it is also available in black from newegg.com