"IDA: an Interactive Document on Algebra"

Arjeh M. Cohen 
Dept. of Mathematics \& Computing Science 
Eindhoven University of Technology 
POBox 513 
5600 MB Eindhoven 


In this talk we will present interactive course ware, 
both for teaching and learning mathematics in a novel way.
The topic is first (and second) year undergraduate algebra. high 
school mathematics, the student is supposed to know just a little The 
presentation differs from that of an ordinary book on the subject in 
that each page has a tableau on which the core information is 
displayed, and little else. Further information, such as a proof of  
the result, is available at the click of a button.
We will discuss some of the experience we gained and the few guiding 
principles that we kept during the manufacturing procedure.