SBIR Phase II: A mathematics communication and collaboration system

这个SBIR第二阶段项目继续一个雄心勃勃的项目，创造一个全新的数学方法。它利用了受助者以前的项目，这些项目产生了一个交互式方程操作系统和一个数学通信系统。该项目将该技术扩展为学习，做和交流数学的综合平台。这项创新直接解决了STEM教育和教育技术产品的缺陷，提供了一种工具，用户可以通过探索来学习数学，并通过发现快速直观地了解方程是如何工作的。因此，它为广大学生打开了通往数学世界的创造性大门，这些学生可能仅仅因为他们的思维方式不同而从传统数学教育的裂缝中溜走。对社会的净影响是降低了进入STEM领域的门槛，提高了数学素养，从而有助于保持我们作为全球创新领导者的地位。该项目研究和开发一个全面的现代数学系统，让学生和专业人士通过简单巧妙的界面，优雅的设计和强大的数学引擎轻松探索和解决复杂的方程。它扩展了收件人已经独特的产品供应，以创建一个变革性的数学平台。该平台是一种创新的数学方法，允许用户在几乎任何设备上输入任何方程，并使用简单的拖放手势来解决它。它对计算机代数的自由形式方法保留了笔和纸计算的探索性方面，同时受益于底层数学引擎的计算能力。凭借独特的用户界面和网络多人游戏支持，它也是一个强大的实时通信和协作工具。该项目通过专注于三个核心开发领域的关键任务，大大扩大了该技术的广度：扩展其核心数学功能，成熟其点对点数学通信系统，以及构建其整体系统架构。该项目准备了一个精确的产品市场适合目标学区的直接许可，和在线教育公司的合作伙伴关系的平台。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This SBIR Phase II project continues an ambitious project to create an entirely new way of doing mathematics. It leverages off the recipients' previous projects that resulted in an interactive equation manipulation system and a mathematics communication system. This project expands the technology into a comprehensive platform for learning, doing, and communicating mathematics. The innovation directly addresses deficiencies in STEM education and educational technology products by providing a tool whereby users can learn math by exploration and rapidly develop an intuitive understanding of how equations work through discovery. As such, it opens the creative doors to the world of mathematics to a wide range of students who might otherwise slip through the cracks of traditional mathematics education simply because they think differently. The net impact on society is a lower barrier to entry to STEM fields and an increase in math literacy - thus helping to maintain our standing as global leaders in innovation. This project researches and develops a comprehensive modern mathematics system for students and professionals to effortlessly explore and solve complex equations through a simple and artful interface, elegant design, and powerful math engine. It expands on the recipient's already unique product offerings to create a transformative mathematics platform. The platform is an innovative new way of doing math that allows users to enter any equation on almost any device, and solve it using simple drag-and-drop gestures. Its freeform approach to computer algebra retains the exploratory aspects of pen-and-paper calculations, while benefiting from the computational prowess of the underlying math engine. With a unique user interface and networked multiplayer support, it is also a powerful real-time communication and collaboration tool. This project drastically enlarges the breadth of the technology by focusing on critical tasks in three core areas of development: expanding its core mathematics features, maturing its peer-to-peer math communication system, and structuring its overall system architecture. The project prepares the platform for a precise product-market fit to target school districts for direct licensing, and online education companies for partnership.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.