I've been converting my High School Math classes to Sage. See my YouTube channel, http://www.YouTube.com/calcpage2009
Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: michel paul <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [sage-edu] High School Algebra with Sage Hi Brandon, Something I've been finding very practical for high school students is providing them a link to aleph.sagemath.org where I've already entered some code. I might ask them to finish it, enhance it, experiment with it .. various things are possible. Especially with @interact. The nice thing about the single cell server is that you don't have to expend any effort getting them to navigate setting up an account. You send them a link, and they're right there. Then I also have a group who have intentionally signed on for the computational tour, so they have cloud.sagemath.com accounts, and some kids got really excited the other day when they realized they could upload their Python files into their cloud accounts. I like to show them pure Python as well as Sage, as Python just by itself is cool for math, and a lot more math teachers should become aware of that fact. And when students get a sense for what Python is, I think they can better appreciate Sage, and it opens up other doors to explore CS. Best wishes. Sincerely, Michel On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Brandon Murry <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everyone, I'm new to the group but I've been tinkering around with > Sage for a couple of years. Most of my experience with Sage comes from a > calculus class. But I like the fact that Sage uses Python. > > This is my first year teaching and my school has several computer labs for > general use. So this week, I took my PreAlgebra students to the lab to > practice solving equations and also learn a little about programming. All > of our work was done on cloud.sagemath.com. It took several days to get > students understanding how to use Sage to "solve" equations. I thought I'd > share the sort of stuff we were doing so maybe others might find > inspiration in it. > > Sage lets us create symbolic equations and then perform operations on > them. Most of our work looked like this: > > eq = 3*x - 4 == 8 > show(eq) > eq += 4 > show(eq) > eq /= 3 > show(eq) > > We could then substitute the number back in to the equation to check that > we were right, but in general we kept it real simple. The goal of the > project was to help students discover what they need to do to both sides of > an equation in order to solve it. Many of my students struggle with what to > do with an equation, and so by using Sage they were able to push the > arithmetic to the background and just focus on the algebraic process. There > were a few students who seemed to learn a little more about Algebra from > just experimenting with equations. Overall it was a moderate success, given > this was the first experience with programming for all my students. But I > do think it was a neat way to introduce programming alongside Algebra, and > I plan to continue some degree of integration of the two disciplines. > -Brandon Murry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- =================================== "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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
