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- 1. PreTeXT Write Once, Read Anywhere 30th Annual ICTCM Washington DC March 15–18, 2018 Bruce Yoshiwara
- 2. What is PreTeXt? A lightweight XML application for authors of research articles, textbooks and monographs. The best of DocBook, LaTeX, and HTML. Outputs: print, PDF, web, and soon, EPUB, Jupyter Notebooks http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/
- 3. Example: College algebra textbook Modeling, Functions, and Graphs by Katherine Yoshiwara https://byoshiwara.github.io/MFG-dev/chap1.html Or via AIM: https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/yoshiwara/
- 4. Aside: AIM Open Textbook Initiative The American Institute of Mathematics maintains a list of approved open math textbooks and encourages the development and adoption of quality open software and textbooks. https://aimath.org/textbooks/
- 5. Example: Assembly language textbook Bob Plantz: Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language Using the Raspberry Pi http://bob.cs.sonoma.edu/IntroCompOrg-RPi/exercises-8.html
- 6. Aside The Knowl was developed by the American Institute of Mathematics. https://aimath.org/knowls-browsing/
- 7. Example: Community college algebra textbook ORCCA: Open Resources for Community College Algebra http://www.greenprecalc.com/precalc1-MHCC/activity-composition.html Exercise 7.1.5 http://spot.pcc.edu/math/orcca/section-set-notation-and-types-of-numbers.html https://webwork.pcc.edu/webwork2/orcca-demonstration/
- 8. Aside: Open source homework systems WeBWorK http://webwork.maa.org/ MyOpenMath https://www.myopenmath.com/ D. Brian Walton javascript http://educ.jmu.edu/~waltondb/webapp/Sampler.html
- 9. Example: Calculus textbook Matt Boelkins: Active Calculus http://faculty.gvsu.edu/boelkinm/Home/AC/
- 10. Aside: UTMOST initiative https://utmost.aimath.org/ The Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics with Open Software and Textbooks project, funded by the NSF, to investigate how students and faculty actually use textbooks in undergraduate mathematics courses, and to use that understanding to produce textbooks that are more effective in promoting student learning. The major components of the project involve education research, resource development, dissemination, and evaluation.
- 11. Example: Abstract algebra textbook Tom Judson’s Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications http://abstract.pugetsound.edu/aata/permute-sage.html
- 12. Example: Linear algebra textbook Rob Beezer’s Linear Algebra http://linear.ups.edu/fcla/section-MM.html
- 13. Example: Class project Geodesics on a flat torus https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~bradlow/torus- geodesics.html Jayadev S. Athreya, Robert A. Beezer, Julia Borchardt, Steven B. Bradlow
- 14. Aside Sage cell respository https://utmost.aimath.org/sage-cell-repository/ SageMathCell https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ Cocalc (formerly SageMathCloud) https://cocalc.com/
- 15. Example: Geogebra graphing calculator http://spot.pcc.edu/~ajordan/temp/section-1.html
- 17. Example: Client-side exercises D. Brian Walton: “client-side dynamically generated and checked practice problems...I now have proof-of-concept problems working, where the problems are defined in XML and a javascript "library" generates and displays the problem and then checks the submitted answer.” http://educ.jmu.edu/~waltondb/webapp/Sampler.html
- 21. Aside: What’s involved with coding? ● Use a plain text editor for source file. ● Use GitHub to get and update Rob Beezer’s tools ● Use a command line to process the source file ● Use PreTeXt google groups for support
Editor's Notes
- There are numerous links here.
- I’ll be focusing on the web output. The idea is that you create a single plain text document (or set of linked plain text documents), and, via PreText tools, you can convert that one document into LaTeX or an html version suitable for the small screens of portable devices.
- My involvement is limited to coding my wife’s textbook into PreTeXt to produce an online version. Notice the navigation bar/TOC on the left in full computer screen. The layout is determined syntactically--the author marks what is a chapter, section, sub-section, theorem, proof, exercise, solution, etc. Note the adjustment when the browser width narrowed sufficiently.
- Kathy’s book is the only dev math book approved by AIM so far. We’ll encounter AIM again soon in this presentation.
- Rob needed to abandon the name Mathbook xml because it the tool was being used by other disciplines, including music and poetry. When I asked on the PreTeXt support group if anyone wanted me to show off some of their work, this was the only non-math response. This book is written on and for the ($50) Raspberry Pi. Most students buy their own Raspberry Pi--whatever computer hardware you have will be adequate for running PreTeXt.
- You can incorporate knowls on webpages of your own without PreTeXt software.
- Matt’s book is another on both the PreTeXt gallery and the AIM approved open textbook list. It was written as a collaboration and is currently the focus of an effort to design an efficient means for a large team to collaborate on revising a textbook.
- AATA was the first textbook to be coded in Mathbook xml, which is now called PreTeXt (a name giving some homage to TeX). It is also featured in the PreTeXt gallery and the AIM list of approved open textbooks. Tom makes extensive use of SageMathCells...
- Rob is the principal developer of PreTeXt. His Linear Algebra book is on the AIM list of approved Open textbooks.
- This is a relatively short example of using PreTeXt.
- Alex Jordan and David Farmer are making a sophisticated graphing utility readily available within a PreTeXt html output.
- David Lippman’s MyOpenMath exercises are importable.
- D. Brian Walton has a proof-of-concept for online exercises that are checked client-side.
- Paul Seeburger