Let her use Matrices in MATLAB or SAGE! See http://sagemath.org
HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 -----Original Message----- From: Jay Bloodworth <johnabloodwor...@gmail.com> To: edu-sig@python.org Sent: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 11:39 am Subject: [Edu-sig] Math UI This question is not really specific to python. Apologies if that is a party foul, but I think it is in the spirit of the list. Suppose I give an algebra student the system: y=2/3x + 5 4x - 2y = 7 I want the student to solve the system algebraically, to show her work, to use appropriate notation, and to do it on a tablet computer rather than pencil and paper. What does the UI look like for this task? Is it something the equation editor for a word processor? Or more specialized? Are their lots of menus? Or is it more like LaTeX, using special text syntax to denote fractions, etc. How do we make sure that using the UI doesn't occupy so many brain cycles that it limits the student's ability to do the algebra? Obviously this is less about solving systems in particular and more about the issues that come up as computers begin to replace pencil and paper as the standard format for communicating in a math classroom. I would appreciate your thoughts. Jay _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
