Mathematica

Courseware

Paul Abbott
Department of Physics
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA  6907, Australia
http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul

This talk will present ways of integrating Mathematica into teaching materials. By itself, Mathematica is an excellent teaching tool -- but it is not ideal for all applications. However, because it is extensible (using MathLink) and customizable (custom front end and kernel), it can form the basis for a wide range of teaching tools, limited only by one's imagination.  As an example of such tools,  CalculusLive (an electronic maths text which uses a customised interface and kernel) and its associated authoring tool will be demonstrated.