WME: Web-based Mathematics Education

An Idea Whose Time Has Come
• Mathematics teachers and students need help in many countries.
• Availability and standardization of the Web and the Internet have grown and evolved sufficiently.
• Maturing technologies: MathML, ECMAScript, DOM, SVG, XML, CSS, Web Services, ...
• Symbolic and numerical computation systems, have matured and become Internet Accessible.
• Decreasing cost and increasing speed of WAN, LAN, and wireless networking.
• Schools in many places have begun to deploy Internet/Web in classrooms.

Web Helps Math Edu
The Web offers helpful materials for Mathematics teaching/learning.
• The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading provides online resources for mathematics education.
• Mathematics section of the US Department of Education site.
• The National Science Foundation’s Math Is Power.
• The IES sponsored Education Resources Information Center, an extensive literature database.
• The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) links to lesson plans and activities.

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