Volume 10, Number 44

October 31 2005 Vol. 10, No. 44 THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS Kali Goes Multilingual | PCMI: Circle Packing Wanted for Interview: Girls in Advanced Math or Science Classes KALI GOES MULTILINGUAL http://www.geometrygames.org/Kali/ Jeff Weeks has announced that Kali 5.1 is now available for Windows machines. This latest version supports 12 languages: - Arabic - Chinese - Danish - English - French - German - Hungarian - Italian - Japanese - Portuguese - Russian - Spanish To use Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese, you might first need to go to Start : Control Panel : Regional and Language Options : Languages : Supplemental language support to enable support for East Asian and/or right-to-left scripts. Without such support, you'll see only the nine European languages. On Windows XP you can use all the languages. On Windows 98 you can use only languages in your computer's default language family. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CIRCLE PACKING A DIRECTED INVESTIGATION OF DESCARTES' THEOREM http://mathforum.org/pcmi/hstp/resources/circlepacking/ The newest PCMI Resource for Teachers has been published and it includes teacher directions and a student worksheet intended to: - Increase understanding of the curvature of a circle and its relation to creating tangent circles packed together - See what can be learned from Descartes' Circle Theorem No materials are required but the investigation can be done with the help of The Geometer's Sketchpad. See the directions and the student worksheet on the web, or download them in PDF format. View other PCMI Resources for Teachers: http://mathforum.org/pcmi/hstp/resources.html PCMI is an outreach program of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. For more information on the program, view the PCMI @ MathForum site: http://mathforum.org/pcmi/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- WANTED FOR INTERVIEW: GIRLS IN ADVANCED MATH OR SCIENCE CLASSES http://www.cplmedia.org/ Mariam Dagnoka is interning for Children's PressLine, a youth journalism program that is published in 400 newspapers reaching a circulation of 23 million worldwide. She wrote the Math Forum to explain that "kids on the staff are working on a story about girls who are in advanced math or science classes. They are looking for girls to interview for their story." If you know of anyone who would like to have her experience published in their newspaper, please contact Mariam by emailing <luckyjolie2003@yahoo.com>. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum @ Drexel http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/kb/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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