Abstract:

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) grants projects to foster good teaching practices under a program known by the acronym PAPIME. One of the authors of this text had one of these grants during the years 2019-2020.

Part of the work developed with that grant was training a group of students, some of them co-authors of this work. The end of the PAPIME project coincided with the lockdown resulting from the pandemic. Nevertheless, the student’s group kept work remotely and, even after funding finished, held weekly remote two-hour meetings. The purpose of the meetings was to take advantage of the skills acquired in using Wolfram Mathematica to produce some materials that could be used to support teaching. The result was the development of four notebooks that were published on the Wolfram Demonstrations site (https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/).

The works whose titles are: A Sturm Liouville Eigenvalue Problem, Convective Energy Flow Through a Window, Emissive Power For a Black body Over a Range of Wavelengths, and Hypocycloids in the Mathematica Icon, can be found at these links:
- https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ASturmLiouvilleEigenvalueProblem/
- https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ConvectiveEnergyFlowThroughAWindow/
- https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/HypocycloidsInTheMathematicaIcon/
- https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EmissivePowerForABlackbodyOverARangeOfWavelengths/

In this paper the communication mechanisms used by the working group are described along with a description of the notebooks developed. A couple of them have already been used in the classroom and have been well received by the students.

Keywords:

Interactive Notebooks, Heat Transfer, Remote collaborative work, Lockdown, Wolfram Mathematica.