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Math Medics, LLC  P.O. Box 12395  El Paso TX 79913

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. An Overview of the Web Site Itself Philosophy & Design

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Math Medics, LLC  P.O. Box 12395  El Paso TX 79913

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  1. S.O.S Mathematicsand Some Other Math Help Sites on the Internet Helmut KnaustCo-Owner, Math Medics LLCChair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP Math Medics, LLC  P.O. Box 12395  El Paso TX 79913 October 20, 2007

  2. 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 Contents

  3. 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

  4. 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”

  5. Target Audience High School Students in their Junior and Senior Year University Freshmen and Sophomores

  6. 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!

  7. Subjects on Our Site

  8. A Short Visit to www.sosmath.com • Homepage • Algebra • Solving equations with radicals • Solving polynomial inequalities • The “Cubic Formula” • The Bouncing Ball • Calculus • Integration of Rational Functions • Differential Equations • Bifurcations

  9. Provides a valuable service to our users Helps us interact with our users Helps us to improve our site by accommodating user suggestions The “S.O.S. CyberBoard” Visit the S.O.S. CyberBoard

  10. A Brief History

  11. To Get Started… • A prudent design • A sensible plan • Time, • More time, • … And more time! • A wonderful team! • Some knowledge of technology

  12. 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

  13. Web Hosting File Upload and Host Management: • FTP protocol, using WSftp etc. • Telnet protocol Local Computer: • Preferably a PC with Windows-OS • Fast internet connection Remote Web Host: • Usually on a PC with Linux-OS • May host 100s of web sites

  14. The Math Forum@Drexel • All(?) Math Faculty at Drexel University

  15. Purplemath • Elizabeth Stapel, Math Instructor at Western International University, Phoenix, AZ

  16. Cut the Knot • Alexander Bogomolny, Former Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa

  17. History of Mathematics • John O'Connor and Edmund Robertson, University of St Andrews, Scotland

  18. Math World • Eric Weisstein, Wolfram Research

  19. The end 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

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