Talk:Electronic textbook projects

Mathematics might be the most important and easiest (relatively) series of textbooks to create.

Here's why: 1) Most content can be taken from existing textbooks without copyright infringement issues (no one owns 3x + 7 = 12)

2)The organization of the textbook is straight-forward

2) It's the easiest subject to study in a non-primary language because there's not that much vocabulary (compared to other subjects), and mathematical symbols don't need translation

3) Word problems, which obviously can't be taken from existing textbooks, could be authored in a Wikipedia fashon

It seems that I'm volunteering myself to start this project. I believe I have the resources to create enough of a backbone of information to get us off to a good start, and to attract other teachers to participate. I run a free website called HSTutorials.net[1], and I post step-by-step narrated tutorials for pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry textbooks (Algebra 2 and higher math to be added in the future). Most of the problems are generic problems that would not face any copyright issues if I posted them as example problems, and could easily make up the rest of the problems for that section of the Wiki textbook. Contributing teachers could write word problems, just as people write and edit Wikipedia entries. Links to other sites could be organized as well. I do this for my own website, and could provide the same organization for the Wiki textbook.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who's interested.