WebMath: Survey

[James White]

Dear Guillermo Alzuru,

	At the Mathwright Library ( http://www.mathwright.com) we have developed
LISP-in-Java Microworlds that encourage students to ask their own questions
and that then give visual or textual responses.   We now have roughly 230
multi-page interactive books.  These Microworlds can work with BlackBoard
and WebCT and they offer formatted mathematical live input/output as well as
MathType presentations of their stories.  Teachers with Institutional
Licenses to the Library can make all of our Microworlds and WorkBooks
available to their students.

	If you would like to see some of these in action before you join the
Library, please visit the MATH Café at the Library  (
http://www.mathwright.com/lr_cafe.htm ) and check out for example: Exploring
Quadratic Functions http://www.mathwright.com/book_pgs/book502.html which
illustrates the interaction you describe.

	In order to read our interactive Microworlds you will first have to
download our free MathwrightWeb Control:
http://www.mathwright.com/lr_mathwrightweb.html

												Best,
												Jim White

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-webmath at camel.math.ca [mailto:owner-webmath at camel.math.ca]  On
Behalf Of Guillermo Alzuru
Sent:	Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:39 AM
To:	webmath at camel.math.ca
Subject:	WebMath: Survey

Hi all,

For years we (the Web Instructional Development department at University of
Georgia) have been creating equations using MATHTYPE to create the MATHML
code, then WebEQ to create applets. But it was not possible to truly test
students ability to solve math problems because they couldn't enter
equations, so all our tests were multiple choice, matching, etc, where you
actually provide the choices and all they had to do was pick the answers.

Recently WebCT included an equation editor which should allow students to
enter equations, which should be a great solution to this problem, but we're
hesitant to use it until it doesn't get a lot better and proves to work
well.

I was wondering what other people at other institutions are doing to allow
students to answer questions by entering equations and solving problems step
by step.

Thanks a lot,

Guillermo

________________
Guillermo Alzuru
Web Instructional Development
University of Georgia
Center for Continuing Education, #194D
Ph: (706)- 542-4476 / Fax: (706) 542-6720

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