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Each Software package has its own strength and weakness.

  1. There is no software can handle all kinds of demands. For example, not all the software packages can do symbolic, numerical, wordprocessor, programing, animations, and external links effectively at the same time.
  2. The question is how do we link up all these investments nicely?

One possible solution will be to use SWP as a wordprocessor and a basic computational tool and use Maple as a programing tool to generate animations and etc. I also found that Java will be an important tool to incorporate software in WWW technology. But when do we write a Java script? It will be too much time consuming if we have to write Java scripts for every subject. Maybe using Java to link with animations done by software is more efficient. There are two interactive web sites I would like share:

  1. ''http://www.calculus.net'', there are some nice VRML on teaching calculus, and a plug in for MathView.
  2. ''http://www.campusnet.or.jp/~tsuyuki/java/iesjava.html''. there are some interactive example on trigonometry.