The Mathwright Library Player 2000 that reads our original collection of Library WorkBooks (as opposed to Microworlds) is a free download. You may get one by clicking at the atom on the left. You will be asked to register so that you may receive our Newsletter.

If you are new to Mathwright, you can then check out the free 19-page Introduction to Mathwright, and read it in Mathwright2000 Library Player off-line whenever you like.

This is our classic 16-bit Player which has been in use at the Library for over 5 years and has, as we might say, withstood the test of time.

It is optimized for Windows 95, 98, Me, and works fine in Windows XP, but it sometimes has a problem with Windows 2000. If you have trouble with it in Windows 2000, we recommend that you view our Microworlds with the new 32-bit Java Mathwright32 Reader.

The Classic Player will read any of WorkBooks at the Library. You may see the List of current WorkBooks, ordered by number of downloads at any time, by visiting the download page. Or you may visit the various rooms of the Stacks to search for the ones you want.

In the Title page for a WorkBook, you will find a button:

Press this button, and you will be asked to "sign in" for the WorkBook. If you are a library member, just sign your name and email address.

A self-extracting file will be downloaded. Either save it to disk and execute it later, or select "Open it" from the popup dialog. This places the book, along with its documentation, on the Start, Programs, Mathwright Library menu, so that you may read it whenever you like. This is pictured below for the WorkBook: MWMilton Calculator:

The documentation for the WorkBook is opened by the icon labeled MWMilton Calculator (Doc) which is just above the selected one in the picture.

Of course, a Library is no better than its cataloging system. Our 180+ WorkBooks and Microworlds already cover a vast range of topics, and so we have made a special effort to assist the reader in navigating this content. The Library Stacks comprise over 70 rooms of WorkBooks, which are organized according to Title, Subject, Level, and Purpose. Many books are cross-listed in this arrangement.

Our Search Wizards in the Stacks are an electronic catalog that can help you find an appropriate WorkBook. Further, each of the Rooms of the Stacks has its own Search Wizard for the Books it contains.

One may, of course, search for WorkBooks by title. But the listing by subject may be more useful. It directs the reader to a Room of WorkBooks that treat that subject. These WorkBooks are arranged in order of grade level (or mathematical experience and maturity).

 

In a similar way, the listing by Purpose places WorkBooks in separate Rooms according to their possible uses (Laboratories, Home Schooling and Independent Study, support for Visualization, skills development, and so on). They are also arranged in these rooms according to grade level. Each WorkBook has in its Title Page, a brief description of itself, and links to all of the Rooms to which it belongs. Thus, a reader may browse there for similar books according to level of difficulty, subject, or purpose. This is a great convenience for readers who may not know exactly what they want.

 

 

 

		- James E. White, Ph.D. , Library Director,
		author of this website, Mathwright Author 2000,
		Mathwright MindScapes, and MathwrightWeb

 

 

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