You will pass in this (filled-in) sheet tomorrow.
It will be worth 10 points.
If you don't finish this worksheet in class, then it becomes homework.
Feel free to talk (quietly, please) and help each other on this worksheet.
Choose a classroom computer. No more than two people at a computer, please.
Each person should fill out their own sheet.
IN FISHER CLASSROOM:
- Click on the "One Mathematical Cat, Please!" shortcut on the desktop.
- It will automatically open in Internet Explorer; this is Dr. Fisher's homepage. OTHER CLASSROOMS:
- Fire up INTERNET EXPLORER. NO OTHER BROWSER!!
- Go to Google: http://www.google.com
- Type "math cat fisher" in the search box.
- Take the One Mathematical Cat, Please search result, which should be very near the top.
- This is Dr. Fisher's homepage.
Click on interactive slide show.
Go through this slide show, stopping to answer the questions on this worksheet.
If you can, list TWO of the languages in which the "important message" is given.
What is the "important message"?
Write in the definitions given in the slide show for each of the following words:
PRECISE:
CONCISE:
POWERFUL:
What is the philosophy of Dr. Fisher's web-based, interactive, free, introductory mathematics course (and book), One Mathematical Cat, Please! A First Course in Algebra?
Mathematical NOUNS are called:
Mathematical SENTENCES must express:
Using the DIAGRAM that summarizes essential comparisons between English and Mathematics, answer
the following questions:
Give an English sentence that is sometimes true/sometimes false:
List five different types of mathematical expressions:
Give an example of a mathematical sentence that is sometimes true/sometimes false:
A common English noun that has three letters is: ___ ___ ___ (Hint: it's not DOG.)
Where does the name "One Mathematical Cat, Please!" come from?
Was the original "cat" book a textbook for a course? (YES or NO) __________
Did Brooks-Cole publishers like the original "cat" book? (YES or NO) __________
Why did Brooks-Cole publishers decide NOT to publish the "cat" book?
In what year did Dr. Fisher begin teaching at Miss Hall's School (MHS)? ________
Dr. Fisher taught at MHS non-stop until she came to Lenox in 2008.
How many years did she teach at MHS?
If you're interested in learning to design your own web pages,
is there anything on Dr. Fisher's site that might help you?
If so, what?
Does Dr. Fisher like big projects? (YES or NO) __________
Can HTML display a HORIZONTAL fraction (NOT as a picture)? (YES or NO) __________
List three problems with posting mathematics as images:
List two challenges of representing mathematics properly:
Has Dr. Fisher been interested in mathematical typesetting for a long time?
What is Dr. Fisher's undergraduate degree in?
What does TeX rhyme with?
What is TeX?
Some files have the extension pdf . What does pdf stand for?
About how many hours, on average, does it take Dr. Fisher to code a typical web exercise?
What does MathML stand for?
In what year did the World Wide Web Consortium release a standardized MathML?
In what year were the first usable browser implementations for MathML?
In what year did Dr. Fisher find out about MathML?
What transformed Dr. Fisher's professional life for the first time?
What transformed Dr. Fisher's professional life for the second time?
When Dr. Fisher says that "MathML is pretty verbose," what does she mean?
What Design Science product does Dr. Fisher use to help her write the MathML needed in
her web exercises?
What does XHTML stand for?
In order for Mozilla Firefox to display MathML, what type of document do you need?
What is Dr. Fisher's site primarily written in, HTML or XHTML?
Go to GOOGLE, and type in the three words "math cat fisher" (any order).
Where does my site appear in the ranking?
Go to GOOGLE, and type in "exponent laws".
Look through the URLs of the pages found; see if you can find a link to my site.
If so, what ranking was it?
If you want, can you get your very own ALGEBRA PINBALL on your home computer?
List two advantages of representing math on the web with MathML:
What symbol appears next to my web exercises that require MathML?
Where does the word GeoGebra come from?
What was your favorite "special effect" in this slide show?
