The goal of this blog is to foster a discussion that will follow up on one begun at the 2006 Math Gateway Partners Meeting at the Mathematical Association of America in DC on April 8, 2006. There, Kyle Siegrist gave a summary of the state of MathML. What followed was a lively discussion of the merits and difficulties of writing and reading MathML compared with writing in TEX and converting to PDF files. In particular, Frank Wattenberg made the case for writing mathematics in TEX and converting the result to pdf files. I hope that both Kyle and Frank will enter this discussion with a detailed presentation of their opinions.

The “experts” in this blog are:

Lang Moore. Executive Editor of the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL), director of the Math Gateway Pathways Project within the National Sciences Digital Library, co-director (with David Smith) of the Duke Connected Curriculum Project, and co-developer (with David Smith) of an online, interactive calculus course.

David Smith. Founding editor of the Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA), co-director (with Lang Moore) of the Duke Connected Curriculum Project, and co-developer (with Lang Moore) of an online, interactive calculus course.

Kyle Siegrist. Current editor of the Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA) and developer of the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics web site.

Frank Wattenberg. Author of numerous online, interactive learning materials in mathematics. See, for example, the OSSLETS Collection in the Digital Classroom Resources component of MathDL.