I'd like to ask about the goals of this endeavor, just to clarify style and content needs. I use Wolfram's MathWorld for my math dictionary. It's imperfect because it's not pedagogically sound: the definitions don't have newbie-friendly versions or enough connections to other areas of human life. I love 3d animations, pictures, and the level of detail, though.
My dream online math dictionary has multiple levels of definitions, pedagogical supports for beginners such as metaphors and rich illustrations, and "web as a platform" tools for taking the dictionary with you, so to speak, as you browse other pages. The goal would be to help math newbies, especially kids, to "mathematize" their usual web activities, bringing more cool math into whatever they do. As you can see, dictionary contents depend on goals... Cheers, MariaD On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is an invitation to all Math educators in WikiEducator > > Gladys Gahona (http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 ) has started > developing a Math Glossary in WikiEducator. > > See: http://www.wikieducator.org/MathGloss/A > > This is an open invitation to all WikiEducators with a passion for Math to > assist Gladys in developing this resource. > > Follow the example from this page: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/MathGloss/A > > If you have a free moment --- feel free to add your favourite definition to > the glossary :-) > > Cheers > Wayne > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
