I appreciate the need for interactive equations -- also something
we can share with students by means of swapping entire workbooks
specific to this or that application, each containing hundreds of
equations, dynamic graphs and so on. Whether we want to put all
this on the web is another question -- maybe yes, maybe no. One
advantage of the "course with enrolled students" format is you
can do a lot to standardize on common software ahead of time (e.g.
MathCad, which also has one of these specialized webviewer add-ons
BTW).
On the other hand, static, graphic math expressions is often exactly
what's needed, as many of us are publishing discursive papers of
finished, read-only results, suggestive of further exploration by
students, certainly, but not presented as "interactive" except in
the old fashioned sense of "engaging your intelligence."
Like, we wouldn't usually denigrate a work in the humanities (e.g.
Fuller's 'Synergetics' -- a central text at my website) by saying
'all those sentences just sit there, static, giving readers no
ability to change the author's wording to something else'.
Kirby
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