| Product Demos | Monday, September 06, 2010 |
The demos you are about to experience are not really demos in the traditional sense. They are not "canned" animations or screen captures. They were not built with Flash or Shockwave or any other animation or graphics tool. They are not "hard coded" to perform a specific calculation or action. These
are not demos of polished content or designed to be used by students.
Our intent with these demos is to show the base level interaction possible
with MathLearn in a very short order. The graphic images used in the demos
were kept at a simple level in order to maintain the emphasis on the
technology.
The math components you will experience and see in these demos are not passive renditions of stylized equations or detached from the interactive learning. These demos are driven by a specialized development suite called MathLearn. The math used to control the session is written in the MathLearn programming language and this language has been designed to be visual, interactive, and supportive of teaching. When an equation is made visible and interacted with, the student is interacting with the actual math used to perform the charting or animation. Mathlearn, written in pure Java, represents a mature product with nearly 10 years of classroom experience. The demos themselves took minimal effort to develop. The components driving these demos took years to perfect. These components are capable of driving powerful interactive learning tools from the primary grades through college.
These five working demos exercise approximately 30% of the total development
suite. Only about 60 hours of development time was needed to create all five
demos.
These demos are presented in a specific sequence
which will lead you through our approach towards learning.
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