The Mathematics Teacher

The KLogo-Turtle is an interpreter of the LOGO language for KDE desktops. The KLogo-Turtle is a useful tool for teaching geometry and the basic principles of the programming of computer. Children can study the mathematics of geometry in an interactive and constructive way. KLogo-Turtle has...

The goal of the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) Project is to explore the design, implementation, and uses of parallel I/O. PVFS serves as both a platform for parallel I/O research as well as a production file system for the cluster computing community. PVFS is currently targeted at clusters...

The Mathpad Draw application was designed to create static drawings of various mathematical objects. It is not a calculator, but there are some calculator aspects. Within the program, animation of several drawing types is possible. Not only is this fun to watch, it can be very informative about...


Platforms: Windows

This program teaches communication skills essential to success in the workplace. It was designed with the classroom teacher in mind but can also be applied to personal or business settings. This demo contains one of the 12 chapters to be found in the full version. The program contains full data...


Platforms: Windows

Mortgage-UK calculates the true cost of a mortgage and allows you to compare the effect of different interest rates and overpayments. It is designed for the UK market, but may work for other country's mortgage systems. It runs on all versions of Windows. Use Mortgage Manager to create an icon...


Platforms: Windows

The goal of this case study is to show how MATLAB and various toolboxes can be used together to solve an imaging problem. The specific problem shown here is a science experiment. Given a pendulum, measure gravity. The mathematics are well defined by classical physics. Gravity depends on the...


Platforms: Matlab

The Newton's Law of Cooling model computes the temperature of an object of mass M as it is heated by a flame and cooled by the surrounding medium. The model assumes that the temperature T within the object is uniform. This lumped system approximation is valid if the rate of thermal energy...


Platforms: Mac

The Heating and Cooling a Cylinder model computes the radial temperature distribution within a long cylinder as it is heated and cooled by a surrounding fluid. The cylinder is broken into shells and the temperature of each shell is computed using a finite difference approximation to the radial...


Platforms: Mac

The Heating and Cooling a Sphere model computes the radial temperature distribution within a sphere as it is heated and cooled by a surrounding fluid. The sphere is broken into shells and the temperature of each shell is computed using a finite difference approximation to the radial heat equation...


Platforms: Mac

The Noon Shadow model shows the geometry of the shadow cast by a gnomon at noon. Users can change the orientation of the gnomon as well as its latitude. The height of the gnomon and its shadow length are displayed in Earth radius units. It is a supplemental simulation for an article by Barbara...


Platforms: Mac

The EJS Ideal Gas Expansion model simulates a two-dimensional ideal gas in a square box. This simulation can be used as part of the activity described in "The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy: An Activity" by Todd Timberlake, to be published in The Physics Teacher. In the model, the...


Platforms: Mac

The Falling in Fluid model shows a sphere falling through a fluid. It is a supplemental simulation for an article by Pirooz Mohazzabi "Falling and Rising in Water" in the The Physics Teacher 48 (7), 478-479 (2010). The sphere is acted on by gravitational, buoyant, and viscous drag forces acting...


Platforms: Mac

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics...


Platforms: *nix

A tool for winning horse race handicapping, it features automatic data input with text and graphical output. It is based on the engineering mathematics contained in the report, ''Engineering Analysis of Thoroughbred Racing''. The development of the theory took about a year of research. After...


Platforms: Windows

GalaXQL is an interactive SQL tutorial. Follow the instructions by your virtual teacher. The teacher can understand several possible mistakes that you may make, and gives hints on what may have gone wrong. You can skip to any chapter in the tutorial whenever you want. Use the query editor to...


Platforms: Windows

The ultimate companion for the busy teacher. Makes six completely different types of worksheet - crosswords, wordsearches, scrambled words and text, text mazes and coded text. Type or paste a list of words, on any topic, in any language, and in seconds you can print a wordsearch, a crossword...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7

Time::Skew is a Perl module that computes local clock skew with respect to a remote clock. SYNOPISI use Time::Skew # Init Convex Hull and timing data my $hull=[]; my $result={}; # Iterate data point introduction Time::Skew::convexhull($result,$datapoint,$hull); This module supports...


Platforms: *nix

Geo::Inverse is a Perl module to calculate geographic distance from a lat & lon pair. SYNOPSIS use Geo::Inverse; my $obj = Geo::Inverse->new(); # default "WGS84" my ($lat1,$lon1,$lat2,$lon2)=(38.87, -77.05, 38.95, -77.23); my ($faz, $baz, $dist)=$obj->inverse($lat1,$lon1,$lat2,$lon2);...


Platforms: *nix

What is Sudoku? It is a brainteaser coming from Japan, very popular in many countries around the world. There are scientific researches describing the mathematics behind Sudoku, and many teachers recommend it as improving logical thinking, but foremost it is a very enjoyable and intelligent game....


Platforms: Mac

Global Consciousness Project Grapher... The Global Consciousness Project claims to detect significant world events by statistically analyzing from several random number generators around the world. When the randomly generated data deviates from what would (statistically) be expected, something...


Platforms: Mac