DME: Digital Math Environment

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New: the DME without Java

The new version of the DME is available!

Students: www.dwo.nl/en/student
Teachers: www.dwo.nl/en/teacher (the teacher environment requires Java)

Questions or remarks?
Contact us through this form

The old java-based version of the DME is still available:

Old java-based DME

Meet the DME

The DME (Digital Mathematics Environment) is a digital learning and assessment environment for mathematics in secondary and higher education. Interactive teaching methods and feedback play a central role. Students can work at any time they want on modules that have been selected for them en receive feedback on their answers. Teachers can view the students' work and adapt modules and activities to meet the class' needs. Some functions require a license, currently only available in the Netherlands and Belgium. But please let us know if your school is interested in trying out this software.

open DME for student

open DME for teacher

open Java DME

always and everywhere

The student version of the DME works in all modern browsers and on all devices (computer, tablet, smartphone). Therefore, students can always and everywhere work in the DME. The teacher version requires Java and works best in Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer.

Active development

The DME is continuously developed further based on user feedback and on new developments and findings from research in mathematics education.

academic foundation

The DME is developed within the Freudenthal Institute of Utrecht University. The didactical vision of this institute is reflected in various ways in the structure and learning materials in the DME.

teacher as author

We think it is important that educational content can be adapted to the needs of specific students or groups of students. Therefore, the DME has a simple editor for editing or designing modules, and for making the educational material fit the school's programme.

DME School License

To gain access to more advanced features, schools can obtain a DME school license.

The DME school license is currently only available in the Netherlands and Belgium. For questions outside of these regions, please contact us through the contact form.

The DME always and everywhere

The DME has been developed from the perspective that good digital education should be available to everyone independent of the used operating system. To achieve this goal we developed a version for students that works in all modern browsers and on all devices (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Originally, the DME is a Java-based environment. As from September 2015 we provide a Java-free environment for students. For other functions in the DME, such as class administration, viewing student work by teachers and for editing modules, a Java-based version of the DME is still required. See: www.dwo.nl/en/teacher.

The old Java-based version of the DME is still available on www.dwo.nl/en/java.

The DME actively developed

The DME is developed by a team of scientific programmers, educational developers, researchers, and teachers.

Your feedback is much appreciated in improving the DME. Please use the contact form.

The DME has an academic foundation

The DME origins from a collection of 'applets': small computer programs with mathematical exercises and games, offered on WisWeb. The applets have been developed in many projects of the Freudenthal Institute in cooperation with schools and educational partners. In the applets models and representations play a central role, for example the balance method for solving equations or cutting figures in calculating a surface. Using interactive models and representations is an important cornerstone of the DME.

New functionalities in the DME, such as feedback options and adaptivity of the educational content, originate from the didactical vision of the Freudenthal Institute and have been researched in several projects. Some examples of research projects in which the DME played a significant role are: (partly in Dutch)

The teacher as author

Teachers with a school license can use class administration, view students' work, and also use the authoring tool. With the authoring tool the DME modules offered by the Freudenthal Institute can be adapted and new modules can be designed.

For adapting existing modules no programming skills are required. The authoring tool resembles a text editor and several manuals are available (see manuals).