Welcome to the Interactive Texts section of the Mathematics Archives

"An interactive text is a computer document from which symbolic, numerical, and graphic tools can be invoked. The results of these computations can be pasted into the document so that each learner has an individual record of his or her explorations."

This is a quote from ' Why Interactive Texts,' an outgrowth of the Interactive Mathematics Text Project (IMTP), which "has as its fundamental tenet the belief that interactive texts provide an environment in which students can fruitfully engage and explore mathematics."

Available at the Mathematics Archives:

• A complete list of the original IMTP abstracts are available. Please contact the author of the abstract if you would like more information and/or see some sample work here on the Mathematics Archives pages.

• IMTP Projects organized by course for which it is applicable.

• IMTP Projects organized by platform used.

• Common platforms/packages used for writing interactive texts.

• There are an increasingly greater number of books that include software with them, even if they are not 'interactive texts' per se. You can find the software for these organized by either the author or by subject or by title.

Return to the Software section of the Archives.

For comments and suggestions, contact the Interactive Texts Moderator.