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From: Kenneth Tilton on 8 Jun 2010 12:21 David Mark wrote: > On Jun 8, 8:47 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Kenneth Tilton wrote: > All this because you posted a link to a bloated and broken "RIA"? Broken? Version 2.0 now installed: http://teamalgebra.com/ Looks fine to me. On FireFox, Chrome, and Safari. Not IE. FireFox at first refused to show anything, while showing no errors. Then I looked away and looked back and it worked. Lovely. Quite fast now that I am doing the release build of the JS, and it now includes instructions for you heathens not using Lisp. Unaddressed as of yet is the non-functioning Enter key (prolly my fault) but (a) there is a new button to kick off a search which may work as a last resort and (b) the Enter key seems to be working now, lord knows why. Enjoy. >> I have the whole review somewhere, but a digital version could be tough >> to dig up. If you are seriously interested I'll look for it. > > The check's in the mail? "Copyright Macworld, Apr, '91: Algebra I Homework Tutor from Missing Link Software is the best algebra tutorial program I have seen. First, it works with algebra problems that the student types in from his or her own textbook. Second, it can generate an unlimited number of random algebraic problems.The software includes an editor for entering algebraic notations. After a student enters an algebra problem and begins typing the steps leading to a solution, the program automatically evaluates each step. The tutor enters a single check if the step is correct; an x if the step is incorrect; a check and a question mark if the step could eventually lead to the correct solution; and a double check for the correct solution. The student can request a series of hints to help find the solution at any time. To create random problems (for use without a textbook), the student first selects the type of problem (Laws of Exponents, Monomial Operations, Multiplying Binomials, and so on), then chooses from a number of options (With Integers, With Decimals, Inequalities), and finally clicks on a difficulty level (Easy, Medium, or Hard). The ability to generate an unlimited number of problems puts Algebra I Homework Tutor in a class by itself." And here is one of the teachers who dug me up to ask for the old software: "Dear Ken, Back in the 90's, I had used your Homework Tutor program successfully with my Algebra I students who were behind. I was excited about the efficient progress they made and how quickly they got to the same level as my better students after using the program. Now I have some new teachers in my department who are struggling with their poor algebra students. you know where I could purchase this software? Thank you for your help. Of all of the software I have used in the evolution of school math and computers, your Algebra I Homework Tutor was the most elegant and practical. Sincerely, <name withheld from you clowns>" kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld
From: Kenneth Tilton on 8 Jun 2010 12:31 Kenneth Tilton wrote: > David Mark wrote: >> On Jun 8, 8:47 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Kenneth Tilton wrote: > >> All this because you posted a link to a bloated and broken "RIA"? > > Broken? Version 2.0 now installed: http://teamalgebra.com/ > > Looks fine to me. On FireFox, Chrome, and Safari. Not IE. FireFox at > first refused to show anything, while showing no errors. Then I looked > away and looked back and it worked. Lovely. That just happened again, on FF on Ubuntu. This time I tried twice, cleared the cache, tried again, nothing. Started at the thing a minute, did it again and shazam. Let's try a Mac.... kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld
From: David Mark on 8 Jun 2010 12:39 On Jun 8, 12:21 pm, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > David Mark wrote: > > On Jun 8, 8:47 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Kenneth Tilton wrote: > > All this because you posted a link to a bloated and broken "RIA"? > > Broken? Version 2.0 now installed:http://teamalgebra.com/ Let's see. You posted a Version 1.0 a day or so ago. It was broken. On being told it was broken, you proceeded to snarl about "silent majorities" and "cults" and whatnot. I'm not interested in commenting on "Version 2.0". [...] > > Quite fast now that I am doing the release build of the JS, and it now > includes instructions for you heathens not using Lisp. Fast is relative and "heathens" sounds like the rhetoric of a cult- member to me. Must be a very odd cult too. > Unaddressed as of > yet is the non-functioning Enter key (prolly my fault) That was the chief complaint from before! > but (a) there is > a new button to kick off a search which may work as a last resort and > (b) the Enter key seems to be working now, lord knows why. Keep praying. Does any of this ring a bell? > > Enjoy. I doubt it. It doesn't even sound like you can enjoy it at this point. > > >> I have the whole review somewhere, but a digital version could be tough > >> to dig up. If you are seriously interested I'll look for it. > > > The check's in the mail? > > "Copyright Macworld, Apr, '91: Algebra I Homework Tutor from Missing > Link Software is the best algebra tutorial program I have seen. First, > it works with algebra problems that the student types in from his or her > own textbook. Second, it can generate an unlimited number of random > algebraic problems.The software includes an editor for entering > algebraic notations. After a student enters an algebra problem and > begins typing the steps leading to a solution, the program automatically > evaluates each step. The tutor enters a single check if the step is > correct; an x if the step is incorrect; a check and a question mark if > the step could eventually lead to the correct solution; and a double > check for the correct solution. The student can request a series of > hints to help find the solution at any time. To create random problems > (for use without a textbook), the student first selects the type of > problem (Laws of Exponents, Monomial Operations, Multiplying Binomials, > and so on), then chooses from a number of options (With Integers, With > Decimals, Inequalities), and finally clicks on a difficulty level (Easy, > Medium, or Hard). The ability to generate an unlimited number of > problems puts Algebra I Homework Tutor in a class by itself." Why, in 2010, would anyone care what one guy said about some software you wrote in 1991? > > And here is one of the teachers who dug me up to ask for the old software: > The note from your teacher is disallowed.
From: Kenneth Tilton on 8 Jun 2010 12:56 Kenneth Tilton wrote: > Kenneth Tilton wrote: >> David Mark wrote: >>> On Jun 8, 8:47 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>> Kenneth Tilton wrote: >> >>> All this because you posted a link to a bloated and broken "RIA"? >> >> Broken? Version 2.0 now installed: http://teamalgebra.com/ >> >> Looks fine to me. On FireFox, Chrome, and Safari. Not IE. FireFox at >> first refused to show anything, while showing no errors. Then I looked >> away and looked back and it worked. Lovely. > > That just happened again, on FF on Ubuntu. This time I tried twice, > cleared the cache, tried again, nothing. Started at the thing a minute, > did it again and shazam. Let's try a Mac.... Works great, except then I decided it was time to have AWS save my image as a template and it decided to reboot me. :( kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld
From: Kenneth Tilton on 8 Jun 2010 13:08
David Mark wrote: > On Jun 8, 12:21 pm, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> David Mark wrote: >>> On Jun 8, 8:47 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Kenneth Tilton wrote: >> "Copyright Macworld, Apr, '91: Algebra I Homework Tutor from Missing >> Link Software is the best algebra tutorial program I have seen. First, >> it works with algebra problems that the student types in from his or her >> own textbook. Second, it can generate an unlimited number of random >> algebraic problems.The software includes an editor for entering >> algebraic notations. After a student enters an algebra problem and >> begins typing the steps leading to a solution, the program automatically >> evaluates each step. The tutor enters a single check if the step is >> correct; an x if the step is incorrect; a check and a question mark if >> the step could eventually lead to the correct solution; and a double >> check for the correct solution. The student can request a series of >> hints to help find the solution at any time. To create random problems >> (for use without a textbook), the student first selects the type of >> problem (Laws of Exponents, Monomial Operations, Multiplying Binomials, >> and so on), then chooses from a number of options (With Integers, With >> Decimals, Inequalities), and finally clicks on a difficulty level (Easy, >> Medium, or Hard). The ability to generate an unlimited number of >> problems puts Algebra I Homework Tutor in a class by itself." > > Why, in 2010, would anyone care what one guy said about some software > you wrote in 1991? See what the teacher wrote in 2007-8 or so...oh, you nipped that. > >> And here is one of the teachers who dug me up to ask for the old software: >> > > The note from your teacher is disallowed. On the basis of "inconvenient truth"? I understand. kt -- http://www.stuckonalgebra.com "The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself." Macworld |