Well, I did a few YouTube screencasts to introduce the use of SAGE. I had my High School students in mind as the target audience. So, you may find my SAGE playlist on http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 channel of some use.
---------- Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone ------Original Message------ From: William Stein <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Phillip M. Feldman" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 8:58 AM +0200 Subject: Re: [sage-edu] SAGE tutorial for highschool students? On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Phillip M. Feldman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The existing SAGE tutorial by Bill Stein has a lot of good >> information, but is hard to assimilate. It would be really great to >> have a tutorial written >> with highschool students in mind. (This would also be useful for >> others who are not professional mathematicians). > > Agreed. What sort of topics would such a tutorial cover? I have a > short list [1] of topics that could be included in a tutorial aimed at > high school students. > > >> Also, I'd like to suggest that the discussion of polynomials should >> not start with polynomial rings. The average highschool student (or >> working engineer) has no idea what a polynomial ring is. > > And I would have thought that a ring is what you get when you're married :-) > > >> I'd really >> like to see some examples that show how to define polynomials with >> rational or decimal coefficients, multiply two such polynomials >> together, factor a polynomial to find the roots (using >> numerical methods if necessary), divide one polynomial by another to >> yield the quotient and remainder, and so on. > > Can you put together a list of topics to cover? Or we could do this > together. The idea is to produce a skeleton of the tutorial in > question. The skeleton should have chapters, each devoted to a topic > of high school maths. For each chapter, provide an outline (in bullet > points if necessary) of topics to cover for that chapter. With such a > skeleton ready, it would be easier to delegate each chapter to an > author who would then flesh out the designated chapter. > > A team in France recently put together a maths book [2] written in > French, with numerous Sage usage examples scattered throughout the > book. I would guess that each person in the team wrote one chapter, > then aggregated all the writings from the team members into a complete > book. Somewhere in that project was to be found an editor who > coordinated the whole enterprise. Paul Zimmerman; he's very, very serious and good at this sort of coordination. I personally didn't go to high school or ever teach it or have kids, so I don't have much of a clue what people learn in mathematics there... > It's possible that we are living in different parts of the world. What > is covered in high school maths in one country could very well be > different from that in another country. To make the skeleton of the > proposed tutorial more concrete, consider my skeleton [1] for the > tutorial covering maths at the year 10 level in Victoria, Australia. Thanks... > > > [1] http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/year-10-mathematics-in-victoria/ > > [2] http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen > > -- > 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. > > -- William Stein 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. -- 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.
