Wolfram Demonstrations and RM Math Framework Edition Open the Door to New Possibilities for High School Math Education

September 6, 2007--Wolfram Research announced today a partnership to bring revolutionary new educational tools to high schools across the country, with a collection of interactive Mathematica-based visualizations for key topics in algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and other math curriculums.

Together with RM Educational Software, Inc., a major producer of technology-based curriculum solutions, Wolfram Research has bundled over 200 Mathematica-based applications from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project with the award-winning RM Math Framework Edition software. RM Math Framework Edition provides a dynamic, visual, and highly interactive supplemental math curriculum that transforms the teaching and learning of high school math.

"With this partnership, we're immediately transforming the traditional classroom into the dynamic classroom, where math comes alive," said Conrad Wolfram, director of strategic and international development at Wolfram Research. "Even those who don't have Mathematica can now benefit from our highly sophisticated, easy-to-use, visual ICT [information and communications technology] applications for interactive math learning."

"This is a whole new way to learn that we think can affect literally every high school student at every level, helping them understand tough concepts in ways that are just not possible with pencils, chalk, or old-fashioned overhead projectors," said Kevin Pawsey, managing director of RM Educational Software.

Created with Mathematica 6, these Wolfram Demonstrations are part of a growing collection of interactive "mini-applications" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Launched just a few months ago, the website already features nearly 2,000 dynamic, open-code resources--making it larger than any similar collection of educational Java or Flash applets, and much more diverse.

For this partnership, educational experts from Wolfram Research and RM Educational Software have composed specific Demonstrations syllabi designed to accelerate high school math curriculums and meet state educational standards. Specific topics include trigonometric functions, integration by parts, limits, Taylor series, complex numbers, systems of equations, vector analysis, differential equations, and more.

More details are available online about Mathematica and its groundbreaking new educational technologies, and about RM Math Framework Edition.