Jorge, I really liked what I saw on your YouTube channel! I'm super jealous of your set up. I want to teach both math and computer science like you, so it's exciting to see someone else making it happen. I'm also using Ubuntu in my classroom, but I do not have a permanent computer lab. Do all of the computers in your lab run Ubuntu as well? I'd like to ask you questions sometime about your curriculum. -Brandon
On Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:00:39 AM UTC-7, Jorge Garcia wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > 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]<javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > 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.
