Research and Innovation projects

Intergeo

The Intergeo project's purpose is that all European schools can use easy and effectively Dynamic Geometry Systems (DGS) in their teaching. DGS are programs that let a student control a geometric construction with just a mouse. DGS almost transform learning mathematics into a game. In addition, they are excellent tools to introduce young students into using computers. The Intergeo project goal is to provide access to high quality educative resources.

Intergeo is already improving classroom implementation of Dynamic Geometry by:

  • Constructing a website, i2geo.net, where teaching materials and whole courses can be shared and downloaded.
  • Providing search tools to find quickly the most appropriate educative resources.
  • Making all DGS compatible, so that any DGS, such as WIRIS cas, will be able to use resources created with another DGS.

Intergeo has brought together the most important European companies and university groups related to Dynamic Geometry Systems, such as Cabri, Cinderella, GeoGebra, and WIRIS cas. Dissemination of the results and teacher awareness are key parts of the project..

Intergeo Project is co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus.

http://www.i2geo.net
WebALT

The WebALT project showcases a significant application that uses a combination of existing standards for representing mathematics on the web and existing linguistic technologies in order to enable the creation of language-independent mathematical content.

WebALT is an acronym for Web Advanced Learning Technologies.

The WebALT project will create software and sample content for an XML database of mathematical problems to be used in undergraduate university courses in mathematics. The technological solutions to be developed by the project can be directly applied to any middle and high school mathematics instruction.

Mathematics problems will originally be written in English with a number of additional XML tags which make it possible to generate versions of the problems in many languages. Initially the project will produce translations of the problems into Catalan, Dutch, Finnish and Spanish.

The two year project started on January 1, 2005. The total cost of the project is estimated to be 2.5 million € (3.2 million US$). WebALT solutions will be commercially developed and marketed by WebALT Inc.

Partially financed by the European digital content for the global networks project Contract Number EDC-22253.

http://www.webalt.net