Tuning the Eee PC for maths at Jonesieblog

Tuning the Eee PC for maths

Published February 2nd, 2008 in Education, Linux, eeepc, mathematics

I’ve been adding some useful maths programs to the Eee PC, and adding icons for them to the Maths/ Learn tab.

The scientific calculator is jscicalc, which works exactly like the calculators that pupils use. Maxima and Geogebra should be familiar to you from previous posts of mine.

Stumble it!

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Tom 10 months ago 1 point
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Have you been able to get some 3D math representations on this tool? (screen resolution, speed...)
Thanks to let us know!

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jonesieboy 10 months ago 1 point
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Hi Tom. Could you give me an example of what you you are thinking about. Maxima does 3D graphing, but I'm guessing that's not what you mean.

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Tess Watson 10 months ago 1 point
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Thanks for the updates Jonsie!

Tess :-)

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mick 8 months ago 1 point
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Hi.
I've been trying to get maxima on my eee pc but it's my first Linux machine. Is there a relatively easy way for the Linux-challenged to do it?

many thanks!

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jonesieboy 8 months ago 1 point
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Hi Mick - apologies for the slow response. I've been away snowboarding in Whistler.

I don't have the EeePC any more, so I can't give you exact details, but there are basically three steps:

1. Fire up a terminal screen (ctrl alt t if I remember rightly)

2. Add some extra repositories by editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file - google will bring up some howtos on this

3. type sudo apt-get install maxima in the terminal

Hope this works for you.

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