Wolfram Demonstrations Project Platform as a Support in Teaching

Abstract

The article presents how Wolfram Demonstrations Project platform can support teaching of a great variety of subjects from very basic up to university level. The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is part of the family of free online services from Wolfram Research. General overview of the platform will be presented as well as a particular usage. The application concerns presenting to students certain numerical methods, namely one-step methods for Cauchy problem for ordinary differential equations.

The Types of Computer Graphics and Their Application at Different Levels of Knowledge

“…There are various articles of geometric solutions tasks which are performed in the classroom with using computer programs like Geogebra [4], Cabri [5], the Wolfram Demonstrations Project platform [3]. The program C.a.R (Compasses and Ruler) is used to create geometric constructions on the plane using the "simulators" of a compasses and a ruler.…”

“…The first attempts to solve geometric tasks on the computer surprise both students and teachers. It occurs that even complete lack of programming skills is not an impediment for the teachers to confirm the theory presented during the lecture by a computer presentation [3].…”

PySyComp: A Symbolic Python Library for the Undergraduate Quantum Chemistry Course

“…The rapid progress in computer science in the last 30 years has stimulated the creation of the computer algebra systems (CASs), which have been used for educational purposes in various fields of study, including chemistry. − Tools such as Wolfram Mathematica, Mathcad, Maple, and Matlab have been used in classroom environments as valuable teaching tools across a variety of subject areas. − ,− The extensive databases of demonstration codes supported by these tools have been reported for quantum mechanics and physical chemistry education. Among them is the Wolfram Mathematica’s Demonstrations Project, , containing simple demonstrations on topics standard in quantum mechanics course curricula, such as quantum harmonic oscillators, spherical harmonics, potential wells, and more .…”