This site is for teachers,
parents and students who seek engaging mathematics.
Many of the topics are accompanied by Java
illustrations. There are more than 900 Java
applets. The applets can be licensed by teachers
for inclusion in their own pages.
Most recently I have moved the
greatest part of the Games and Puzzles section to a
separate site CTK Math
Games for Kids. This allowed me to switch
from the older applet tags to the object tags that
are fast becoming common nowadays. This will insure
that the applets always run in the most appropriate
version of the Java Virtual Machine without the
need for my or user intervention.
The applets run in a browser Java addon and also need
a few smaller libraries. For this reason, pages that
carry applets may take longer to load than the Java free
ones. However, the libraries have to be loaded only once:
subsequent pages load pretty fast. Also please note that
the Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) comes with its own
Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the software piece which
executes Java applets. The Microsoft's implementation of
JVM is inferior to the Sun's and lacks certain features
needed by some applets. It is recommended for the IE
users to upgrade the JVM, which can be done by
downloading it from the Sun's
site. The installation procedure is virtually
automatic.
