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Maybe I am behind the times here as MIT released this in 1999, but it is awesome.
One of the worlds greatest universities releasing their educational content for anyone in the world to view, study, and better themselves free of charge.
the site is: http://ocw.mit.edu
they have a lot of content; video lectures, problem sets, lecture notes, and more. Topics from many departments; Mathematics, History and many more.
I can not speak for other content areas, but obviously MIT is known for mathematics and technical education throughout the world. I have been studying the Differential Equations Course 18.03 and there are many other courses I intend to take a look at.
I have tackled the first of 32 lectures of the 18.03 and am working on the first problem set that corresponds to the lecture. In other words do more than watch, do the homework and actually learn stuff. I look forward to completing this course and “taking” more courses.
MIT is clear about the mission; this is NOT an MIT education, but it will give you insight to their educational process, the world, and make you a better person. Just like reading a book will. You get bragging rights and understanding if you take it seriously.
I will probably also study some Engineering and Linear Algebra courses. I think you should take some too.
I have added video to the wiki, using EmbedVideo extension of mediawiki.
I have posted a video instructing an example of the Completing the Square technique.
I intend to record more video lessons and embed them into the math text, so it is like a book and a teacher all in one.
Of course you can not ask the video questions, but it should be a good extension of the students classroom notes.
I can not figure out how to align the video to the right and have the text wrap around it … as always a work in progress.
enjoy.
looks like mediawiki needs to have access to ffmpeg in order to serve *.ogg and theora files. Installing ffmpeg failed on:
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DRIGL_CFLAGS
and DRIGL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to x11@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
“/usr/ports/graphics/libGL/work/Mesa-7.3/config.log” including the output of
the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide
an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/libGL.
*** Error code 1
I cranked out a few http://google.com/bsd searches, but not able to solve the problem yet.
OK. I was unable to use matrices on Maths Wiki because they depend on amsfonts. After some googling and trying to install amsfonts manually with no success; I have now deinstalled latex port and am in process of installing teTeX. We will get these matrices yet; What one human can do another can do.
/usr/ports/print/tetex
make install clean failed. updating ports with portsnap … I have never used portsnap before. I’ve always used cvsup, but I will see how it goes.
portsnap finished and appeared to update my ports tree:
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
then did make install clean on teTeX, it installed and has amsfonts called amspsfnt in the FreeBSD ports tree.
Now \mathbb and matrices both work. 
I would like to use sitmo or something like it to incorporate into my quiz tool. The idea is to have a math palette like sitmo and put the appropriate code inline into the text box for each question. I will look into the sitmo project and see if it is open source or what the dealeeO is.
thinking aloud … again.
For those who have to knit.
Maths … on the move.
Updated rational functions with some graphs from Lybniz function plotter. Also wrote some text for Vertical Asymptote section.
More digital art.
just in case you doubted it.
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