I have to comment on this. I worked with a group called 'Future Scientists and Engineers of America'. This group, and others like it, were created to fill a need: the public school systems do a poor job of teaching science and preparing students for jobs in engineering. The Very Worst thing about 'education' is the rule that you must Not make mistakes -- or you will be punished! Design, the scientific method, and biological evolution is Error-Correction! And you can't correct an error until you have one to correct! As Charles Kettering once said to a graduating class at Yale, the way to succeed in engineering is to make lots of mistakes! (Kettering was second only to Edison in the number of patents that he held.) Somehow, we have to reverse the current method of 'education'. BTW, I have Asperger's Syndrome. When Dr. Asperger discovered this, he did not see it as a disability. It might best be thought of as a different skill set. Where we fail miserably is in interpersonal skills, which most people value very highly, and reject the person with AS because he can't be effective on that level. But we excel at other things. I seem to have a particular talent for geometry and engineering, and MOI gives me the tools that I need to display my talent. I will go so far as to say that MOI makes me look smarter than I am! I also want to mention that MOI is a very good tool for teaching Calculus. The simplicity of drawing curves and finding tangent lines makes the derivative obvious (which it certainly isn't in algebra). Also, MOI makes it relatively easy to find areas and volumes using Simpson's Rule. Of course, there are other programs that can help in this way, but MOI can do this and so much more.
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