An important goal of our project on exploiting information technology in mathematics instruction has been to find convenient and practical solutions for representing mathematics on the WWW, the focus being here the appearance of the symbols, formulas and other special structures. Many existing means have been gathered and explored, and some applied in teaching to assist lecturers and students. For example, use of pictures, HTML coding and plug-in-applications have been investigated, and also some methods for automatic conversion from different sources of information have been tried out.

Besides ease of use, also extendability and coherence with standard mathematical typesetting (LaTeX), should be criterions for the methods chosen. So the development of new technologies such as MathML and OpenMath, which focus also on preserving the meaning of the mathematical objects, must be taken into account, and have been included in our project.

This work will be the basis of our next project of developing an interactive distance education environment.