A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students write an upper secondary mathematics textbook in a booksprint. The event started on Friday 28th September at 9:00 (GMT+3) and the book will be (hopefully) ready on Sunday evening. The book is written in Finnish.
The result — LaTeX source code and the pdf — is published with open CC-BY-license.
As far as we know, this is the first time a course textbook is written in three-day hackathon. The hackathon approach has been used earlier mainly for coding open source software and writing manuals for open source software.
If you want to follow the progress, visit the repository at Github or our Facebook page (the conversation is mainly in Finnish, but you are welcome to comment and we will gladly answer in English).
Great initiative, Vesa - glad to have a colleague like you!
VastaaPoistaIhan loistavaa, an excellent job!
VastaaPoistaWhere is it?
VastaaPoistahttps://github.com/linjaaho/oppikirjamaraton-maa1/downloads
PoistaWhere can I see the...Finnished product?
VastaaPoista:)
PoistaIt is not ready yet - I just uploaded a development snapshot for you here:
VastaaPoistahttps://github.com/linjaaho/oppikirjamaraton-maa1/downloads
We still have 1,5 days to write :-).
PoistaKUDOS to you Vesa .... what a GREAT example you are setting !
VastaaPoistaWhy is it written in Finnish. Sure - the authors are Finnish, but I can only read English. Not much use to me now is it. You need to think more about your fellow man before doing something so selfish.
VastaaPoistaBecause the book is directed to Finnish students and schools which we know best. I am absolutely sure we'd be glad to work in English as well, but this was first priority. :)
PoistaJust gran one extra guy to do an english translation of the finished book when you do MAA2 ;)
PoistaI wanna take a look. I like the suomi language but I dont understand to much; its better to me english or spanish. Do you need some help to translate the material?
VastaaPoistaGreat work, teaching materials have to be free!
VastaaPoistaAn English version would be a great source for way more translations. :-)
We follow the same approach in South Africa for our school textbooks. If you wanted the English LaTeX source for any of our books you can download it from the table of contents page for the books on www.everythingscience.co.za and www.everythingmaths.co.za - also CC-BY.
VastaaPoistaOur teachers aren't comfortable with LaTeX so we author on Google Docs and use the oerpub.org site to turn then Docs into XML and from there we convert to LaTeX to do our layout.
Cheers
Mark
Sounds great! Do you have written any articles about the process and best practices in it? I'm preparing one.
PoistaGOOD WORK! Much respect !!
VastaaPoistaThis is an absolutely brilliant idea, I wish you good speed!
VastaaPoistaWell done - congratulations of this project.
VastaaPoistaWell done - congratulations of this project. [2]
VastaaPoistaExcellent work - and another request for an English translation, which could reach millions worldwide, with English being the lingua franca; also a Spanish translation?
VastaaPoistaThis is inspiring stuff! So much so, that I'm looking to do something similar to create a new English & Literacy book/resource package for the Scottish Curriculum (http://pedagoobook.wikispaces.com/).
VastaaPoistaI'd love a chance to ask you some questions once you have finished and had time to reflect on the experience.
Anyway, good luck, and stop reading this and get busy finishing your book!
Tätä kirjaa lukee mieluummin kuin romaaneja, toivottavasti kirjoitatte lisää oppikirjoja suomeksi.
VastaaPoistaPity it wasn't written in HTML and converted to PDF later.
VastaaPoistaI've begun converting it to a website:
Poistahttp://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/maa1/
Great, thanks!
PoistaI offer myself for a Spanish translation.
VastaaPoistaGreat! Are you willing to translate from English to Spanish or from Finnish to Spanish?
PoistaWish my finnish was better so that i could help supporting translation of this great project. Only understand about 50% of what i read. But love the project and have been promoting this idea to a bunch of teatcherstudents that i know for quite some time.
VastaaPoistaThank you! I think we will proceed so that we:
Poista* improve the Finnish version a couple of weeks
* then translate it in English
* then native (or at least better than us :-) English speakers can improve the translation
Erm.
VastaaPoistaI would like to build the book to have a look at it.
Which TeX file should I compile?
Hi! Sorry for delay - compile the file kirja.tex.
PoistaHyvää ja ansiokasta työtä!
VastaaPoistaTätä työtä pitäisi jatkaa hartiavoimin peruskoulun ala-asteen ympäristöopin oppimateriaaliin. Kaikki kunnia kaupallisten oppikirjojen tekijöille, mutta sisältö ja laatu on ala-arvoista koululaisen vanhemman ja veronmaksajan näkökulmasta. Ympäristöopin pääpaino näyttää olevan poliittisessa maantiedossa.
Yläasteen fysiikan kirjoistakin on poistettu laskut, koska koululaiset eivät osaa matematiikkaa?
Suomenkielellä on vaikea löytää kiinnostavaa ja kokonaisuuksia rakentavaa fysiikan alkeita. Monia referenssikirjoja on englanniksi, mutta sielläkin alkeet tahtovat olla sirpaleisia määritelmiä asioista.
Nyt kun OPSit vielä kirjoitetaan uusiksi niin uhkana todella on, että fysiikan ja kemian opintojen aloittaminen siirtyy yläasteelle tulevaisuudessa. Ja suomalaisten kun piti olla ympäristötietoisia kansalaisia myös tulevaisuudessa nykyisen hallitusohjelman mukaan...
Hello Vesa,
VastaaPoistaAwesome post and I am waiting for its English translation.give me update like this in future.
Thanks for sharing.
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I'm totally disappointed man!! There should be an English version of this book as I cannot read Finnish language. I’ll have to wait for the English version now. :(
VastaaPoistaI just tried to access the GitHub repository but only get a 404.
VastaaPoistaOh, check our new repo at:
Poistahttps://github.com/avoimet-oppimateriaalit-ry/vapaa-matikka