Maybe the Sage Download or Notebook could include a company/school/organization field for statistical purposes. On Oct 22, 2011 7:43 AM, "michel paul" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
