It has been an extraordinary enhancement to all my classes, both online and off. These notebooks can be used in a lab or online. With a few clicks of a mouse, a web page with the live notebook embedded is created to be shared with the world using the free LiveMath browser plug-in. The math created with the program is LIVE, not static, on the web and off. Perform algebraic, numerical, and graphical experimentation showing every step.
Students can explore topics from elementary algebra to calculus, and even fractals.
An online bulletin board with live postings is available for free along with free web storage space for those teachers with no place to put their online notebooks. Teachers must try to remain current in both the technology and pedagogies to teach mathematics in ways that did not even exist ten years ago. It is a challenge, to say the least, but one to be enjoyed and embraced. The rewards are great. Just watch the students as they learn to explore and understand mathematics in ways that were never previously envisioned.