Sketch of a Distributed Education Environment Based on Mathematica -- Computer-Supported Mathematics

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Computer-Supported Mathematics

Mathematica^© (Mma) as a tool for mathematical education.

Sessions based on Mma notebooks.
- Multimedia documents with executable contents.
- Composed of notebook cells.
Frontal presentation: teacher equipped with computer.
- Projects notebook to screen.
- Runs examples in notebooks.
Interactive lessions: students equipped with computers.
- Use given notebooks as course material.
- Run predefined examples in notebooks.
- Program and run own examples in notebooks,
- Return notebooks as assignment results.

How to integrate into distributed sessions?

Author: Wolfgang Schreiner
Last Modification: March 9, 1999

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