Mathematica 6 opens primary possibilities

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been working with fellow contributor AbsentCat to trial in primary education the use of artefacts from Wolfram Research Inc’s new release six of Mathematica.

I have investigated computer mathematics packages in the past but they never really seemed to be a viable option in real primary schools where the teacher is a generalist with level two mathematics (I am only formally qualified to level two myself), while both the cost and complexity of the software are high.

The availability of a free player, easily packaged graphic entities, and the demonstrations project changes all that - or, at least, I believe that it does, based on this first taste.

I will be back, with concrete tested examples, in a few days.

[contributed by Chandra]