On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Joyner<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM, John Faig<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>
> ...
>
>>
>> 1. Improve the interface so that students can explore more easily.
>> This could be a  dropdown box that lists all mathematical operations
>> by concept.  For example, there could be an "arithmetic group" with
>> add, subtract, multiply and divide.  There could be a "change
>> representation" to convert among percents, decimals, fractions, and
>> scientific notation.  There could be a "circle" group with "calculate
>> radius", "calculate area", "calculate circumference", etc.  The
>> "circle" calculations would only work if students have defined the
>> necessary variable. Lastly, I envision a library of formal
>> definitions.
>
>
> This sounds like a much expanded form of a help system? I wonder if a
> javascript form of a "tutorail for middle schoolers" could be created
> and then run
> separately in another tab of the notebook FF browser? Run Sage in one tab,
> the interactive explore MS tutorial in another?
>
>
>


This FF toolbar for blender reminds me of what you want (for Blender, rather
than for Sage). It is installed separately from Blender but provides a nice
some interface to some functionality Blender has. I wonder how hard it
would be to
create a Sage toolbar?

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