MATHS ON THE WEB -- FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS

When Java applets were introduced about a decade ago, there was a general enthusiasm among educators, at least in CS departments, that their topics - mathematics, programming languages - could be presented in an interactive way. However, although Java has been adopted as the programming language of choice at many universities, the early vision(s) of interactive education has not been realized, despite the increasingly large collection of interactive examples of mathematics, physics, and related disciplines on the Web. When we look at how, for example, Wikipedia has become a trusted source of information on mathematics, we may attribute this to the lack of a coherent framework for incorporating interactive math examples. Such a framework, apparently, is more easily provided for (hyper) textual information, or images and video, as testified by the large amounts of user-contributed content in sites such as flickr and youtube.

MATHS ON THE WEB -- FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS

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