WebMath: Request for info

[Jonathan Borwein]

Dear Robert:
I've forwarded your question to friends at the Technion and University
of Haifa -- which has a sizable Arab student population.
Cheers, Jon
 
Robert Miner
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> The internationalization folks at W3C have asked the Math group to
> investigate the use of right to left math notation in RtL languages
> such as Arabic.  We have written to our friends and colleages, but we
> haven't been very successful in getting useful answers -- various
> people have offered second hand opinions that at the lower levels,
> math is in fact sometimes written RtL, but we have only been able to
> get a copy of a single document showing this, and it was a little
> suspect, since it was higher-level and mixed RtL and LtR layout.
> 
> Does anyone on this list have experience with RtL math equations?
> Does anyone know some lower-grade math teachers in Arabic or Hebrew
> speaking schools whom we could ask about what they do?  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Robert
> 
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