Researchers in have developed a mobile phone application to help youngsters study maths. The programme was developed by Professor Michal Yerushalmy of the Institute for Alternatives in Education of the University of Haifa,Israel, and by experts from the university's Computer Science Department. It can be installed on most mobile phones and enables the gadgets to function like computers, which are able to perform mathematical functions at different levels from elementary geometry to calculus. The phone application is supported by Eurocom Israel.
The Math4Mobile project examines the opportunities of ubiquitous and personal technologies for educational purposes, specifically of using the mobile phone for teaching and learning mathematics. Read more