WebMathematics Interactive

WebMathematics Interactive (WMI) is an open source mathematics software.It mainly supports solving problems and exercises in mathematics for the age of 14-20. WMI also helps in verifying solutions and discovering skills and level of knowledge. Users need only internet connection and a web browser to use WMI.

Didactical background

Nowadays ever more people study mathematics in universities or colleges. However, study groups are usually too big for the teacher to help each student to gain a deep understanding of the educational material. The spread of computers and the internet provides a reliable aid for many more students as an 'every day tool'. WMI also supports practicing typical exercises and preparation for the exams.

Technical details

The WMI program is written in PHP. Many other software are also contained in the underlying software packages, like LaTeX, latex2html, Apache, PostgreSQL, xeukleides and so on.

References

Authors

The software is primarily developed in the University of Szeged ( [http://www.u-szeged.hu link] ), Bolyai Institute ( [http://www.math.u-szeged.hu link] ). The project was supported by the [http://www.ihm.hu Ministry of Informatics and Communications, Hungary] , in 2003.

The software

The most recent version can be downloaded from the [http://sf.net/projects/wmi Sourceforge server] , however it can be used [http://wmi.sf.net immediately] as well.

References

R. Vajda and Z. Kovács: Interactive Web Portals in Mathematics, [http://tmcs.math.klte.hu Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science] 1 (2) (2003), 347-361

M. K. Németh and R. Vajda: Computer-Assisted Assessment of Mathematical Knowledge. In: Computer Algebra Systems and Dynamic Geometry Systems in Mathematics Teaching. Proceedings of the Sprout-Selecting Conference, 2004, pp. 113-127, Pécs