Maxima on Eee PC
I''ve been playing some more tonight with the eee pc. I installed maxima on it, which is a superb open source CAS. Here's a screenshot:
ActiVote Walkthrough Part 1
At my visit to Musselburgh Grammar this morning, I spoke to some of the maths department about using Activote. They were enthusiastic about the potential of the technology, but said something like "it looks easy as you stand there and explain it, but we'll forget everything you've said by the time we next come to use it". So.... to provide a bit of backup, here's a step by step guide to using Activote with your class. The following assumes that the voting pads have been registered with your PC. If not, chase up IT! Setting up the User Database You'll want your pupil names to be stored in the system, so that their names appear at the top of the screen when you run a vote. Here's how.... In East Lothian, we have a problem - we don't have write-access to the place on the C drive where the user database is stored! To get around this, we need to copy the default user database to somewhere that is writeable, then tell ACTIVStudio that we've done so: I
This looks great Jonsie.
ReplyDeleteAre the characters still big enough to read? Can you alter the font size on Maxima?
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Hi Tess. If you click on the image, you can see it full size. Quite readable really.
ReplyDeleteNice. I noticed that you are running an old version of wxMaxima (from the Xandros repository perhaps). Any ideas on how to get the latest version of wxMaxima and Maxima running on the eee pc p900? Also, have you tried R? It works really great and you can do real work with it on this machine.
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