This is great. Good examples to use right away - solving 3d systems. I wonder how many of us are using Sage in high school? How could we find out?
- Michel On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Brad Burkman <[email protected]> wrote: > I gave a session yesterday at the annual meeting of the Louisiana > Association of Teachers of Mathematics on using Sage in the high- > school classroom; kcrisman asked me to share the experience with the > group. > > My presentation worksheet, LATM_SAGE_INTRO, is published at: > sagemath.shodor.org:8000 > clemix.clemson.edu:345467 > sagenb.org > > I posted it at all three because I'm paranoid that some technology > will fail during a presentation. In fact, Shodor's site did not work > yesterday. > > SAGE IN CLASS > > This fall, for the first time, I am using Sage extensively in my > Algebra II course. If you go to sagemath.shodor.org:8000, you can see > several published pages with LSMSA in the title. You can see the > assignments at > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1klcdZdKBZemihw0SjeIdQQPHjVuc9ZWo_6gedaUN9Do/edit?hl=en_US > > Usually the assignment is to use Sage to check exercises in the > textbook that they also do by hand. To check that students are > actually doing the work, I ask them on a quiz or test to give me the > syntax for something they were supposed to have done several times in > the homework, like create a matrix. > > Shodor has very generously invited me to have my students create > accounts on their server. > > GIVING SUCH A PRESENTATION > > Eleven teachers attended my one-hour session. Ten students per > instructor is about the max for a computer training session, because > each student has unique difficulties. > > I had not been confident that there would be WiFi in the conference > center [there was], so I had CD's for Mac, but for PC's I had trouble > creating a SageLIVE CD that included the worksheet. I didn't have the > budget to buy USB drives in sufficient quantity. > > I began the session with Henry Neeman's line that "THE TECHNOLOGY WILL > FAIL !!!," and it went reasonably smoothly. > > Most of the teachers had used Mathematica in college, and many use > GeoGebra in their classes. > > One teacher didn't have a sufficient version of Java to run the Jmol > 3D diagrams, which is a big selling point for using Sage in the > classroom. I had the same trouble on one of the three laptops I'd > brought. > > None of the attendees had heard of Sage before. Given the feedback > and intensity of participation, I would expect that two of them will > be using Sage at all a month from now. One of those is a professor of > math education at Centenary College. > > One of the sections of the tutorial worksheet is a @interact module I > copied from a demo site, graphing the sine with its Taylor polynomials > of different degree. Some teachers found it fascinating; others had > never heard of Taylor polynomials. Welcome to American education. > > I would be happy to answer questions about my experience with Sage in > the high school classroom. I will be at SC11 in Seattle, Saturday- > Tuesday Nov 12-15, and plan to give a "resource" (we're not supposed > to call them "posters"): > > SC11 Education & Broader Engagement Resource Fair > At the Joint Education & Broader Engagement Evening Social > Saturday November 12 2011, 7:00-9:00pm, Red Lion Hotel > > Brad Burkman > [email protected] > Instructor in Mathematics > Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts > > > -- > 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. > > -- ================================== "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman ================================== "Computer science is the new mathematics." - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou ================================== -- 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.
