Teachers and students in high schools and on college and university campuses find that MacKichan Software products are the perfect tools for teaching and learning mathematics. Here's how some of them are teaching and learning effectively with Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook. (Some of these links will take you outside the MacKichan Software website.) Also see a list of textbooks created with our products.
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"Using a Computer Screen as a Whiteboard while Recording the Lecture as a Sound Movie" by Jonathan Lewin, Kennesaw State University. This paper was presented at ICTCM 2004. It describes a different role for technology in mathematics education, a role that includes Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Notebook in the process of classroom communication.
Engineering Probability and Statistics course materials
Examples of documents created with Scientific WorkPlace and their corresponding PDF versions.
Calculus: Understanding Its Concepts and Methods by Darel Hardy, Fred Richman, Carol Walker, and Robert Wisner
View a demo of this revolutionary calculus textbook, which incorporates Scientific Notebook in the exploration of calculus concepts.
Virtual Math Tutor Version 3.1 by Jonathan Lewin
The innovative Virtual Math Tutor supplies materials for studying mathematics in the form of over 60 full-color sound movies with a playing time of 50 hours. Topics range from beginning to advanced algebra, elementary analytic geometry, and trigonometry, all important prerequisites for university-level calculus. Detailed solutions to hundreds of exercises are included.
Virtual Calculus Tutor is a study resource for a two semester college/university calculus sequence. It presents a complete development of the differential and integral calculus of functions of a single variable, including infinite series. Virtual Calculus Tutor includes more than 60 hours of video that presents the material clearly and fully. The videos use Scientific Notebook documents as their medium and, in this way, they are a world apart from many products made with a camcorder showing a provessor standing in front of a blackboard.
Links to Scientific Notebook resources at Ranger College or to sample quizzes and College Algebra notes.
View sample examinations for Intermediate Algebra (Math 120), College of the Redwoods.
The electronic resource page for Discrete Mathematics (MA 219), Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Web Based, Interactive, Tutorial and Quiz Supplement for Pre-Calculus and Calculus by the WebMath Group
If you are seriously interested in distance Education with mathematics, visit this page. To view the site with one of our products, choose Open Location from the File menu, enter http://www.academicsolutions.com/webquiz/mindex.tex , and choose Open.
Presents materials for a first course in Calculus as taught at Texas A&M University.
The WebMath Group, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
The WebMath Group specializes in on-line distance education projects. The current project, WebCalC, is a completely on-line calculus course.
WebCalc II from the Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
WebCalc II is the second part of the WebCalc calculus course created by professors at Texas A&M University. To view the site with one of our products, choose Open Location from the File menu, enter http://www.math.tamu.edu/webcalc/2/mindex.tex , and choose Open.
Differential Equations, Mathematics Department, College of the Redwoods
View sample examinations for Differential Equations (Math 55), College of the Redwoods.
Solving Inequalities Graphically by Tim Howard, Mathematics Department, Columbus State University
Presents steps in solving an inequality graphically using Scientific Notebook.
Using Scientific Notebook to teach optimization, from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Puget Sound.
Notes on Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace by Phil Viton, Ohio State University
This web page contains support files connected with Scientific WorkPlace, LaTeX, and GAMS. It includes links to HeVeA (a LaTeX to HTML translator) and other interesting programs.
Scientific Notebook Support Notes from Cornell University
A brief Scientific Notebook tutorial.
Exploring Mathematics with Scientific Notebook by W.C. Yang, Radford University, VA; J. Lewin, Kennesaw State University, GA
Last revised 05/01/07
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