MathPiper NLVM and Applets

[Dani Novak]

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) http://nlvm.usu.edu/
is quite useful for many school districts around the USA.

Since GeoGebra was build within Math Piper I wander if it would be
possible to build a system within it that will make it easy to create
the sort of applets that NLVM crafted. Maybe MathPiper itself is
already to right tool for that.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

--Dani

[Ted Kosan]

Dani ,

> The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM)   http://nlvm.usu.edu/
> is quite useful for many school districts around the USA.
>
> Since GeoGebra was build within Math Piper I wander if it would be
> possible to build a system within it that will make it easy to create
> the sort of applets that NLVM crafted.

I think that the JavaScript capabilities that GeoGebra currently has
would be a good way to experiment with creating GeoGebra-based applets
which are similar to the NLVM applets. If it works with JavaScript,
then in theory it could work with MathPiper too.

> Maybe MathPiper itself is already to right tool for that.

MathPiper does not currently have graphics-oriented functions.
However, if graphics-oriented functions are added to MathPiper in the
future, I think that having them support the building of simple
applets like the ones at the NLVM website would be a good idea.

But if educators wanted to have free applets which were similar to the
ones at NLVM, I think it would be easier to just hire some Java
programmers to develop them :-)

Ted

[Howard Ostrowsky]

Are you guys familiar with the Easy Java Simulations Project?  I don't know if this project is still active, but if so, it might be worth a glance.

Sherm