MULTICHOICE MATHEMATICS ON THE WEB

MULTICHOICE MATHEMATICS ON THE WEB
A mathematics teacher development programme for the Dinaledi Maths and Science Initiative

The purpose of this temporary site is:
- to provide brief notes for MultiChoice authors on the potential of ICT tools for our materials,
- as a medium of communication between authors concerning ICT tools,
- for testing our work on the web,
- to showcase some examples of our ongoing work.

Notes on authoring:
An internet or a CD-ROM course, i.e. learning material using a browser as medium, gives us the opportunity to exploit the visual, dynamic and interactive capabilities of the medium!
We can use identified open source applets that we can adapt to our needs, and our own Javasketchpad applets.
Browse the examples below and reflect on how we can incorporate this medium into our units - indeed how we may build ideas around the technology!

JavaSketchpad applets
Java Graphing applet
The Descartes applet
Physlets
Image and cursor applet
Notes on trigonometry
Some Excel examples

Sample showcase units (pre-final format):
Unit 12 - Analytical Geometry: An introduction
Unit 13 - Analytical Geometry: The Circle
Unit 14 - Analytical Geometry: The Conics
Unit 19 - Transformations
Unit 20 - Curve fitting
Units 24/5 - Proportionality and similarity

The development process:
Below are applets for the different program units (left, html format) and completed unit scripts (right, doc format, zipped).
Note - these show the programme in development!
The final product is distibuted by MultiChoice Africa Foundation, on CD and online. Click here to access the online programme.

Note: You need a Java-capable and Java-enabled browser - please read here!

Alwyn Olivier - Content Editor
E-mail:
18 December 2002