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Would you like to have a Workshop on Mathwright at your school? Learn how to use Mathwright Author to build interactive mathematics and science books for your on site or distance courses. Or learn how you can make best use of the Library through an Institutional License to support courses that are in place or are planned.

We offer on site Workshops (5 hour minimum) for local faculty and staff that we can schedule at your convenience. If you would like to learn more about them, please send contact information at our Contact Us page and we will call you.

We develop interactive mathematics and science content for web courses.

Visit a few Mathwright sites worldwide to see what we have been up to.

Designing a web-based mathematics or science course? Read on...

If you have asked yourself some of the following questions, Bluejay Lispware may have an immediate answer for you.

1. Question: How can I supplement the lectures I place on my website with focused and interactive explorations that both illustrate my points, and give the student readers the chance to experiment with their own examples?
2. Question: How can I present live mathematical expressions and formulas in a legible form on my web page, and in a way that merges seamlessly with text and (live) graphical and pictorial illustrations?
3. Question: Is it necessary for me to learn a generic programming language like C++ or Java in order to build an attractive and pedagogically useful live animation that admits (and understands) a wide variety of student input?
4. Question: Do I have to learn a complex computer algebra system dedicated to doing sophisticated mathematics in order teach elementary mathematical concepts correctly on the web?
5. Question: I have an idea, a simple idea that may help my students discover and understand the meaning of the topic I've been lecturing on (Fill in: epsilon-delta, Riemann Sums, Limits, Runge-Kutta, Gaussian Elimination, Fractions,...,whatever). How can I give them the chance to experiment with that idea at their own pace, and with their own questions, as well as mine, at my website...before the end of the decade?

• For those who do not program and do not plan (or have the time) to program, we can give you what you need to place the Microworld version of any Mathwright WorkBook currently in the Library on your own web page. You must be a member of the Library to select this option. You then submit an email order for a 1-year lease of a Microworld for your website. You may specify the size and location of the Microworld in your HTML. Visitors to your site need not be Library members, and there is no fee for them. The fee for a 1-year lease is $35.00 (USD). This may be paid either by credit card or by check, but the original order (specifying the WorkBook) must be an email order.
• If your idea differs from a current WorkBook, then you may consider submitting the idea to us at our suggestion page. We will be pleased to quote you a consultation fee for creating the Microworld you describe and making it available for you to distribute freely to your visitors. We supply the free Player for you to distribute to your readers. Of course, the estimate will depend on the nature and size of the job.
• On the other hand, if you would like to try your hand at either modifying a current WorkBook, or creating a new one from scratch, then you might like to purchase the Mathwright32 Author program. The price for the package is $250.00. With that program, you may create your own Microworlds. Use our accompanying publisher kit to include your Microworlds on your web pages. A freely redistributable version of MathwrightWeb is also included with the kit, so that you may distribute to your readers from your web pages.

It is an option for entire institutions (schools, libraries, etc.) to obtain an Institutional License. It provides a license for general use for one year either on the Local Network at a school, library facility, or other educational institution, or on the students' private machines.

This option for academic institutions (schools, libraries, etc.) is to obtain an Institutional License. It provides a license for general use for one year either on the Local Network at a school, library facility, or other educational institution, or on the students' private machines...

When you purchase the license, you receive a CD with the collection of current Library books and Players in case you want to install them on a network machine, or distribute them to students for their own machines. The CD comes with the login password that will give any user of the network access to all of the WorkBooks and Microworlds of the Library online. This will allow you and your students to visit the web library on the network and download any WorkBooks or read any Microworlds they choose. The license (and password) also allows users to read the WorkBooks at home, or on non-networked campus machines.

The one-year Institutional membership price is $250.00 (USD).

You may purchase one through an online email order, and must supply a return mail address where we can send the CD and password for your institution. We accept Purchase Orders, or payment may be made by credit card at the Library Store.

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