1. The Mathematical Mark Up Language MathML

2. Deficiencies in Mathematical Collaboration Inability to transfer complex math expressions from websites to programs that manipulate them Difficulty in printing complex math expressions. No way to capture the “mathematical idea of an expression or relationship.

3. Existing Standards TeX most common math publishing typesetting system. ISO 12038 math DTD

4. Who’s Making the Standard? The Math Working Group of the Web Consortium The Open Math Project of the Open Math project. Other vendors of web browsers and computer algebra systems.

5. The MathML Standard Compatibility with programs the manipulate mathematical expressions Accessibility for the impaired. XML CSS compliant way to display and convey mathematical expressions. Ability to search expressions and sub expressions.

6. The MathML Standard Three types of elements: –Presentation –Content –Interface