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and Some Other Math Help Sites on the Internet S.O.S Mathematics and Some Other Math Help Sites on the Internet Helmut Knaust Co-Owner, Math Medics LLC Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP Math Medics, LLC P.O. Box 12395 El Paso TX 79913 October 20, 2007
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Contents An Overview of the Web Site Itself Philosophy & Design The Building Blocks A Short Visit The “S.O.S. CyberBoard” A Brief History of Sosmath.com From www.math.utep.edu/sosmath … to www.sosmath.com Publishing on a Commercial Server What Do You Need to Get Started? The Users of Sosmath.com Usage and User Statistics Other Math Help Sites
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Other People Involved Mohamed A. Khamsi, Co-owner, Math Medics LLC Professor, UTEP Nancy Marcus Co-owner, Math Medics LLC Associate Dean, UTEP Michael O’Neill Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College Luis Valdez-Sanchez Associate Professor, UTEP
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Original Philosophy “S.O.S. Math is the website at the University of Texas at El Paso, where you can work with material to help you: Do your homework Prepare for a test Get ready for class”
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High School Students in their Junior and Senior Year University Freshmen and Sophomores Target Audience
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Design Choices Make the browsing experience as easy for the users as possible: No frames, no plug-ins Maximal browser compatibility Easy navigation Uniform look of the pages Keep bandwidth requirements low Allow for user feedback S.O.S.Math started in 1996 Netscape 2.02 had just been released!
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Subjects on Our Site 1 – High School Mathematics Algebra Trigonometry 2 – College Mathematics Calculus Matrix Algebra Differential Equations 3 – Miscellaneous Add-Ons “CyberExams” (Practice Tests) Tables and Formulas “S.O.S CyberBoard” (Bulletin Board)
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A Short Visit to www. A Short Visit to www.sosmath.com Homepage Homepage Algebra Algebra Solving equations with radicals Solving equations with radicals Solving polynomial inequalities Solving polynomial inequalities The “Cubic Formula” The “Cubic Formula” The Bouncing Ball The Bouncing Ball Calculus Calculus Integration of Rational Functions Integration of Rational Functions Differential Equations Differential Equations Bifurcations Bifurcations
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The “S.O.S. CyberBoard” Provides a valuable service to our users Helps us interact with our users Helps us to improve our site by accommodating user suggestions Visit the S.O.S. CyberBoardS.O.S. CyberBoard
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A Brief History Summer 1996Planning; First pages written August 21, 1996Launch of www.math.utep.edu/sosmath Spring 1999Negotiations with UTEP to start S.O.S. Mathematics as a commercial enterprise. May 14, 1999Launch of www.sosmath.com on a shared web serverwww.sosmath.com July 5, 1999Start of the S.O.S. Mathematics CyberBoard
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To Get Started… A prudent design A sensible plan Time, More time, … And more time! A wonderful team! Some knowledge of technology
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To Get Started on a Shoe String Budget Web Hosting Service, $10-30 per month for a shared host Domain Name, about $35 or less per year Software FTP client, $0-45 Computer algebra system?, $0-1,500 Graphics editing software, $70-1,000 Back-Up capability, $0-100
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Web Hosting Remote Web Host: Usually on a PC with Linux-OS May host 100s of web sites Local Computer: Preferably a PC with Windows-OS Fast internet connection File Upload and Host Management: FTP protocol, using WSftp etc. Telnet protocol
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The Math Forum@Drexel The Math Forum@Drexel All(?) Math Faculty at Drexel University
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Purplemath Purplemath Elizabeth Stapel, Math Instructor at Western International University, Phoenix, AZ
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Cut the Knot Cut the Knot Alexander Bogomolny, Former Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa
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History of Mathematics History of Mathematics John O'Connor and Edmund Robertson, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Math World Math World Eric Weisstein, Wolfram Research
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Contact info: http://www.sosmath.com/mail.php This presentation can be found at: www.math-medics.com/GEPCTM.pps Math Medics, LLC P.O. Box 12395 El Paso TX 79913 The end
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