The Mathwright32 Reader that reads our new and growing collection of Library Microworlds (as opposed to WorkBooks) offline 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 Mathwright32, you can then check out the free 20-page Introduction to Mathwright32 Microworlds, and read it in Mathwright32 Reader off-line whenever you like.

Microworlds are Mathwright "WorkBooks" that you can also read in your browser. The browser must be ActiveX enabled, and you should download the plugin, our new MathwrightWeb ActiveX Control first in order to enable your browser to view them. You may read about this new technology for Mathwright here.This is part of our new 32-bit Java platform which gives you the choice of reading Microworlds offline as with Classic WorkBooks, or of reading them in your Browser.

Mathwright32 is designed for Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, and Windows XP. And it is designed for the future. Mathwright32 Reader is an Application, analogous to the Classic Mathwright Library Player 2000, and does not use the browser or require you to be online to read a Microworld. Thus, you may read the Microworlds you download from the Library any time you want, at your leisure.

The Mathwright32 Reader will read any of Microworlds at the Library. You may see the List of current Microworlds, 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 Microworld, you will find a button:

Press this button, and you will be asked to "sign in" for the Microworld. 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 Microworld on the Start, Programs, Mathwright32 Reader menu, so that you may read it whenever you like. This is pictured below for the Microworld: Derivatives and Graphs of Functions:

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 Microworld. Further, each of the Rooms of the Stacks has its own Search Wizard for the Books it contains.

One may, of course, search for Microworlds 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 Microworlds 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 Microworld 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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