I do teach p-chem and have used Sage instead of Maple for a number of years. I have my own server set up, but would suggest using SageMathCloud as a starting place. My first exercise with Sage is to have them practice using it for differentiation and integration (I basically have them do exercises out of Barrante's book). I have them do it by hand and check themselves with Sage. I have them save their work on the server and then I check that they did it. They get a few points for doing it. I provide almost all answers as screen shots of sage and encourage them to use sage for their homeworks, but do remind them that they still have to be able to do standard manipulations by hand on exams (you have to be clear about what they need to be able to do without the crutch). I essentially am trying to get them to use Sage as an electronic version of the math tables.
I do use it for lots of live in class demos, usually to show graphical information. I ended my last second semester using sage in class to work our way through Gillespie's 1977 paper on stochastic kinetic modelling to write a program that did the technique. I think it worked well. Anything you've done with Maple should translate. We use it for error propagation and other lab computations as well, although once the algebra is done we use a data analysis package like LoggerPro. Igor or Origin to process larger data sets. I believe from discussions with him that Steve Singleton at COE college has converted some of the common Maple/Mathematica/Matlab worksheets into sage. His web site is http://www.public.coe.edu/~ssinglet/. Jonathan On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:14 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > I am teaching the two-semester undergraduate PChem sequence. I have used >> Maple in the past and would like to switch to Sage. I am hoping some of >> you will return to this group with brilliant tips! >> >>> >>> > Awesome! I am not a chemist (cc:ing someone who is!) but I would say that > the way that our students in pchem seemed to use it most effectively was as > a "demo in class, modify for homework" strategy. That is, the professor > would show some sample computations for the in-class problems/demos, and > then distribute the commands/share a worksheet/give to download/whatever > distribution method they chose to students to use on homework, always > assuming that most of the stuff would be similar enough they wouldn't need > programming instruction or the like. > > But that is my fairly uninformed opinion for chem. There are lots of > ideas for general math classes on this list... > -- 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/d/optout.
