MATH TOOLS NEWSLETTER - APRIL 5, 2003 - No.1 Thank you for your Math Tools registration. We're off to a great start as we develop our new digital library. Currently we have two active courses, Math 7 and PreCalculus. By the end of next week we'll have the Math 2 course open, with links to a preliminary set of tools, activities, lessons, stories, and support pages. For those of you who have been participating in our Roundtable Discussions, we appreciate all of your activity. You've presented many useful viewpoints and ideas on how teachers use tools to help students learn mathematics. We're going to post a summary of the first two Roundtable Discussions soon with some follow-up questions. Math Tools is always interested in your feedback. Soon we'll have a special Suggestion Box for this. We're looking forward to reading your ideas so that we can add features that really make the site meet your needs. ***NCTM ANNUAL MEETING http://mathforum.org/workshops/nctm2003/exhibit.html If you'll be at the NCTM Annual Meeting in San Antonio next week, we'd like to invite you to drop by the Math Forum booth, #531, to say hello. Please identify yourself as a Registered Math Tools user and we'll give you a general purpose non-internet math tool for stopping by! Gene Klotz and George Reese have some scheduled times in the booth and other Math Forum staff members will be there to chat as well. ***RESEARCH AREA http://mathforum.org/mathtools/research/ George Reese has posted a new summary of an education research publication. We invite you to discuss it in the Research Area. ***UPCOMING FEATURES - Registration & user preference database - User profile linked from discussions signature - Math 2 course with a preliminary collection of resources - Suggestion Box ***FEATURED TOOL Function Flyer http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool.html?id=260 Type in a function such as 1*cos(1*x+0)+0 and then click on "set function." Change the constant values with sliders, and see what happens to the graph of the function. Discussion for Function Flyer Tool: http://mathforum.org/mathtools/discuss.html?id=260&context=tool CHECK OUT THE MATH TOOLS SITE: Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Register http://mathforum.org/mathtools/register.html Discussions http://mathforum.org/mathtools/discuss.html Research Area http://mathforum.org/mathtools/research/ Developers Area http://mathforum.org/mathtools/developers/ Newsletter Archive http://mathforum.org/mathtools/newsletter/ \`. .--------------.____________) \ |//////////////|____________[ ] `--------------' ) ( '-' The Math Forum -- 5 April 2003