Hi all,
I have posted on this topic before a few months ago and did not find what I am looking for so I thought I should post again.
I am looking for a practical Math app (ideally opensource), that I can use to make worsheets and exams. I am currently teaching unfortunate young Adults at a Nonprofit in the States. I teach 8th grade level Math. I cover everything from Basic Arithmetic thru Algebra, Geometry, Probability and Stats,
If you have any suggestions I would appreciate a link. Also, I am operating a Mac Ibook G4 OSX..
Thanks.
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Not exactly sure what you mean. You could design worksheets and exams in open office or you could put them on-line in Moodle. If you mean maths questions, you might find some by searching the Curriki project http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome or the NDRB when it goes live in a few weeks time.
You could try Geogebra if you like, it's open source and available from http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ I haven't done any more than play with it myself but the maths team at my school are going to evaluate it in the next couple of weeks (hopefully!!).
if you do try it, could you let us know what you think and I will put a link to it on www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk you can email me at david(at)freesoftwareforstudents(dot)org(dot)uk
Thanks
hope its useful.
David
another package is CAR metal http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/index_en.html I haven't tried it at all but it may be worth looking at.
I can't think of one cohesive package that would do all that you want. All I can suggest is a trawl through sourceforge.net, you might find something but if not don't be too worried about using more than one package.
Hi CuriousOne,
The openeducationdisc maintains a list of a few mathematical programs: http://www.theopendisc.com/education/, most of them have mac equivalents. We have been trying to include geogebra for a while and I can highly recommend it. But due to the creative commons non commercial license, you would be prevented from selling any discs if you wished to.
Thanks
Pete
Sympl is a maths application which aims to cover many areas of the subject. It is at an early stage right now, but new releases are coming along every few weeks adding new features, so you could keep an eye on it, www.sympl.org
Sympl uses scripts to control the plots and diagrams. Not all teachers are going to want to write scripts from scratch, but tinkering with existing scripts is not so difficult. There are some examples on the site, and hopefully over time others will write and share their own scripts. It can also be used to create graphs from the UI.
The code is written in Java so it will run on most platforms, and there is an applet version to run on web pages. It is open source (GPL). A new version was released over the weekend, so expect extra scripts and examples to be added over the next few days.
I agree with previous comments, there is nothing wrong with using more than one application - that is the beauty of open source.