The following image is "live" -- click on it to see what happens. Then think about how you might use this tool in material for mathematics instruction.
This "image" has two parts: a static image (the map), for which you can substitute any image you like, and a "Lite Applet" called Image_and_Cursor, which we will describe in more detail in the following pages. Our goals are
Frank Wattenberg and Bart Stewart are at the United States Military Academy. Suzanne Alejandre is at The Math Forum at Drexel .
Lite applets are flexible and powerful tools that can be used as part of highly interactive curriculum modules that are scientifically and pedagogically sound. The power and flexibility of lite applets are based on three ideas:
Image_and_Cursor is the first entry in the Lite Applet Collection, an open source collection housed in MathDL. All the files used in this article, including the Java source code files, are freely available and may be downloaded for your own use. Links are provided throughout the article and on our Resources page. We invite you to submit your own lite applets and modules to be considered for inclusion in this collection. Contact any of the authors for further information. We expect to add new lite applets and new modules using those applets to the collection regularly.