Math Forum Web Units and Lessons

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General Information

Name: Math Forum Web Units and Lessons
Home Page URL: http://mathforum.org/web.units.html
Brief Description: The Math Forum believes that the World Wide Web opens interesting possibilities for educational materials in the way that it combines hypertext, interaction, multi-media, and communication at a distance, particularly since users can construct their own Web contributions. The Forum is committed to being a resource which is built upon the activity of the teachers, students, and researchers who use it.
Stated purpose: Over the next year we will experiment with the use of the Web for instruction and with involving Forum users in the creation of materials for this great big Internet classroom. Here are a few examples already under way.
Sponsoring/Funding Institution: The Math Forum.
Persons Involved: Math Forum director, Gene Klotz, klotz@mathforum.org and Program Administrator, Steve Weimar, steve@mathforum.org.
Groups and levels they aim to serve: All mathematicians, particularly math teachers & students.

Highlights...
Here are the areas of the site that are most extensive:

Building Models of Surfaces
The Forum is interested in the use of physical models as aids in understanding 3-Dimensional surfaces. Swarthmore student Joan Hoffmann has created some how-to pages for building surfaces that appear in multi-variable calculus. Let us know if you have some models of your own to submit.
Introduction to Vectors
Supplementary material to help students with their first encounter with vectors, and an experiment in the pedagogical possibilities of the WWW which allows nonlinear use of documents of all types, and of Geometer's Sketchpad, which has internal possibilities for unveiling, animating, and tabulating, in addition to its dynamic capabilities.
Limits
An experiment in using the World Wide Web to illustrate the intuitive notion of limits in functions of two variables.
Tangent Planes
An experiment in using the World Wide Web to illustrate the intuitive notion of the tangent plane to a graph of a function of two variables.

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