About the Flash and Math Website
Welcome to the Flash and Math website! This website was created and is being developed by Barbara Kaskosz and Doug Ensley. The website evolved from our ongoing project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Mathematical Association of America whose purpose is to empower educators in math and sciences to create web-based teaching materials using Adobe Flash. As a part of this project, we have been developing a collection of ActionScript 3 tutorials. In the process, we have dicovered that these tutorials are of interest to the general Flash developers' community.
Since we established this website, in late July 2007, our traffic has been growing fast. Lately we are seeing close to 300,000 page visits a month and over 61,000 unique visitors monthly. Our growing stats make us happy and we are glad to be contributing to the Flash community.
About the Authors
Barbara Kaskosz, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics University of Rhode Island. |
Doug Ensley, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics Shippensburg University. |
About our Project
Our project is sponsored by the NSF grant DUE-0535327, "Tools and Training for Developers of Mathematics and Science Teaching Materials in Flash". Since the project began, we have conducted a series of Flash workshops and presentations at annual conferences. In particular, at the Joint Mathamatics Meetings (JMM) in 2006 and 2007, and at the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) in 2006 and 2007. At the 2008 JMM, we presented a talk and served as panelists at a panel session titled Dueling Platforms: Java vs. Flash. We gave a Flash workshop at the 2008 ICTCM.
In June 2007, we conducted a very successful, week-long workshop Flash at the Beach: Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash at the University of Rhode Island. The workshop was sponsored by the Professional Enhancements Programs (PREP) of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Some of the tutorials on this site were prepared for that workshop. We will conduct another PREP workshop on Flash in June 2008: Flash in the Valley: Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash
We also established MathDL Flash Forum at the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL). MathDL is sponsored by the NSF and the MAA. At the MathDL Flash Forum we publish atricles related to Flash and math education that provide complete ActionScript code. ActionScript 3 articles, all of which contain custom AS3 classes, are linked at the Development Articles and Custom Classes section of this site.
We hope you visit often and enjoy our Flash and Math website! We are looking forward to meeting you at one of the workshops or online at our Discussion Forum.
