Themed Session Free Software
Presentation 6 ST, TT 12:25 pm – 12:40 pm
Presenter #1: David R. Hill Temple University
Presenter #2: Lila F. Roberts Georgia College & State University
Title: Visualizations for Max-Min Problems
Description: The “Demos for Optimization Problems” in the Demos with Positive Impact collection provides a toolbox of visual aids that illustrate fundamental concepts for understanding and developing equations that model optimization problems, commonly referred to as max-min problems. Several java applets will be illustrated.
Website: http://mathdemos.gcsu.edu/mathdemos/maxmin/maxmin.html
Presentation 7 MI, TT 12:45 pm – 1:00 pm
Presenter #1: Lila F. Roberts Georgia College & State University
Presenter #2: David R. Hill Temple University
Title: Using the Java Components for Mathematics Project
Description: The "Java Components for Mathematics" (NSF DUE-9950473) is a free collection of configurable mathematical software components written in the Java. By using various components and specifying parameters, users can construct a variety of demonstrations for calculus and pre-calculus. Several applets constructed for topics in these areas will be illustrated.
Website: http://mathdemos.gcsu.edu/mathdemos/hyperlist/appletlist.html
Presentation 8 A, MI, TT 1:05 pm – 1:20 pm
Presenter: Mike Martin Johnson County Community College
Title: Dynamic Web Tools
Description: Publicly available dynamic web tools that can be used in numerous courses, including college algebra, mathematics of social choice, statistics, complex analysis, calculus, differential equations, and biomathematics will be demonstrated. The tools and web pages can be used not only for visualization and simulation, but also for drill and assessment.
Website: http://staff.jccc.edu/mmartin/webmath.html
Presentation 9 TT 1:25 pm – 1:40 pm
Presenter: Lars Jensen Truckee Meadows Community College
Title: How to Create Quality PDF Files with Free Software
Description: The PDF file format has become a common standard for exchanging documents in our classes because of its accurate representation of the course document, and easy handling of mathematical symbols. This presentation will review various options for creating PDF documents using free software.
Website: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator and http://openoffice.org
Software: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ and http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html
Presentation 10 TT 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Presenter: Lars Jensen Truckee Meadows Community College
Title: LYX - The Easy Way to Use TEX/LATEX
Description: LYX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is also a front end to Knuth's TEX/LATEX typesetting system, and thus lends itself well to typesetting of technical documents. LYX is available for all major platforms.
Website: http://www.lyx.org/ and http://tug.org/
Software: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/lyx-143-4-bundle.exe
