Using TEXMACS in Math Education: An exploratory Study
Abstract:
In order to foster the use of the standard scientific text-editor GNU TEXMACS in math
education and to develop semantic-based added values during the authoring process, we
conducted an exploratory study with a first year mathematics course. We developed an ex-
tension of TEXMACS to support creating, browsing, solving and submitting exercises to an
external repository. During a supervised classroom exercise we collected successive snap-
shots of the student solutions. We present an analysis of this corpus with respect to the edit
behaviour and selected linguistic characteristics. Furthermore, we discuss how the collected
information can be used to provide support services for the overall authoring process. The
progress of the study is published regularly at www.imath.eu.