On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Rob Beezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi William, > > Besides the usual overview of how easy it is to install SAGE, how many > goodies you get in one package, and the benefits of open-source, I'd > demo as many nontrivial capabilities of SAGE as possible. Maybe in > proportion to their weight in the undergraduate curriculum.
Thanks. That's a really helpful list of ideas! > > Such as: > > Introductory statistics: IIRC the R program is included? > Calculus: Plotting, symbolic tools, limits > Multivariate: 3D plots, JMOL > Linear Algebra: Maybe over a finite field to demonstrate SAGE's > explicit support for other fields, plus your monster integer > determinants > Upper-division courses; whatever strikes your fancy > > Sharing/publishing notebooks, the public server at sagenb.org, and the > tools to make interactive demos with sliders and the like, would help > people imagine how the interface features would help them with their > courses. > > Should be a good opportunity to get some folks that are very > interested in education excited about SAGE. From my experience > organizing two of these conferences, you'll have folks from a wide > range of institutions represented, including many community colleges. > But everybody will be interested in new ways to improve their > teaching. > > Rob > > On Oct 17, 11:23 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> Any ideas what I should do at this (see below)? >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Stephen Glasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:40 PM >> Subject: Details for PNW-MAA 2009 meeting >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Dear William, >> >> I thought I should get back to you regarding the PNW-MAA meeting >> 2009.04.03-04. Your minicourse is now scheduled for Fri 2:30-5:30. >> What title would you like for the minicourse? The theme of the >> conference is "integrating computer software into the undergraduate >> curriculum." To help us advertise your minicourse could you send >> a short abstract describing the content and level of the minicourse? >> >> Our committee has decided to run three minicourses simultaneously >> from 2:30 to 5:30 on Friday. I was hoping to attend at least two. >> Hopefully most attendees want to attend one. A web >> pagehttp://www.cwu.edu/PNWMAA09will be up soonish. >> >> Best wishes, >> Stephen Glasby >> >> c.c. Dan Curtis, Chair Local Organizing Committee >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org >> >> >> >> MAPCWU.PDF >> 756KViewDownload > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
