The pilot at the University of Warwick was especially useful to us as the devlopment team in Birmingham as it involved a totally independent team who downloaded, installed and used the system for an academic year. Staff development took place to enable colleagues to learn the highly technical aspects of authoring their own learning materials in the STACK format.

Convince teachers to use steplets as a tool in mathematics teaching.

We adopt the definition of algebraic modeling formulated by various authors in the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic as a basis to define ''functional-algebraic modeling''.

Analyze both the conditions needed to teach and learn this activity at the end of secondary level (16-18) and the constraints that hinder its development in the classroom.

The analysis is supported by a teaching experimentation carried out in a “workshop of mathematics modeling” centered on the study of a business situation (how to make money by selling T-shirts?) using the symbolic calculator WIRIS CAS.

The first challenge was the learning material. There wasn't any. There was only questions in the air. What kind of? How hard? How many questions?
The pupils are only 12-13 years old so the material should be in that level. I created the material according to a few course books and curriculum. After the course i can see if it was suitable.
There is a visually handicapped pupil in the test class. I'm really eager to see how she is doing in the course.

• Creation of semantically enriched educational content: creating semantically enhanced learning objects and documents.
• Provide added-value services based on the machine-interpretable content.
• Contextualize learning content by explicating information about learning objects as well as the relation to other objects.

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• capturing the workflows of OpenMath content dictionary editing and supporting them
• motivating the OpenMath developers to actually use the wiki interface by pointing out the benefits
• seamless and lossless data exchange between the wiki and the Subversion repository

Create something very simple to use and lightweight to deploy.

We really wanted to make it easy for other people to contribute without them having to recompile the applet. This include adding output formats - you just modify an existing .xml file to create a new output format. Similarly for the languages. This seems to have worked.