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A desktop application to read and write interactive worksheets allowing embedded graphs, calculations and answerable questions. Possibily as an additional value-added task, an public website where teachers and/or students can share their own worksheets. This may be something that can share ideas with http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team
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A desktop application to read and write interactive worksheets allowing embedded graphs, calculations and answerable questions.
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Possibily as an additional value-added task, a public website where teachers and/or students can share their own worksheets. This may be something that can share ideas with http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team
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The plan is to build in Python, utilising useful modules such as matplotlib and numpy, allowing readable text and executable code alongside one another in a single document. This document will be readable and executable - providing the opportunity for students to experiment with changing values etc, generating graphs/diagrams/results as they go to aid understanding.
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The plan is to build in Python, utilising useful modules such as matplotlib and numpy, allowing readable rendered text and equations alongside executable code in a single document. This document will be readable and executable - providing the opportunity for students to experiment with changing values etc, generating graphs/diagrams/results as required to aid understanding.
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This is similar in concept to worksheets available in MathCad Explorer such as the ones here http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/msn/book/worksheets.html and the work done here on WebLab http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.WebLab.html
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This is similar in concept to worksheets available in MathCad Explorer such as the ones here http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/msn/book/worksheets.html and the work done here on WebLab http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.WebLab.html as well as embedded objects in Sage notebooks.
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The difference between these applications and the expectation of this project is the target audience. This application needs to have a comparitively simple interface, lowering the barrier to entry and allowing more teaching material to be created and shared.
    
Target audience is teachers of children aged 10-18, for aiding independant learning.
 
Target audience is teachers of children aged 10-18, for aiding independant learning.
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This would have many uses in teaching subjects such as Maths and Physics, but with a website providing open submissions the number of worksheets available would increase and provide much greater value to the software. One specific usage would be teaching of programming - with Python embedded the worksheets would be interactive and would have instantaneous feedback.
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The worksheets would be written by teachers, and they can allow editable sections for answers, or to try different values in graphs/diagrams/equations.
    
If the software was set up in a school (one usage scenario) it could be configured to return results to a server. Worksheets could return statistics from integrated questions allowing teachers to target areas of weakness amongst the students.
 
If the software was set up in a school (one usage scenario) it could be configured to return results to a server. Worksheets could return statistics from integrated questions allowing teachers to target areas of weakness amongst the students.
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