Just posted the following at mathfuture. My principle came in to observe the other day, and this morning we had the followup meeting. He was impressed, and I was glad to see how genuinely impressed he was. What he observed was the students interacting with the Sage Cell. I told him how asking students to code mathematical ideas immediately shows why they've never understood math previously. There are students who have advanced year by year in math just through imitation, and it shows when you ask them to interact with code. There are students in post Alg 2 classes who believe that f(x+h) = f(x) + f(h).
- Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michel paul <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:09 PM Subject: inverses To: [email protected] http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=nvjnsk A student can change the function used as well as the start, stop, and step values of the domain. Everything else takes care of itself. What's more, the code reads naturally. You don't have to learn anything extra to follow what's going on in the first 4 lines. That stuff is the core curriculum. I've been finding the Sage Cell amazingly effective. Send a link to students with code and comments. They respond, creating their own code, and then reply sending their own link. I have found it a very powerful and easy way to do things. -- Michel =================================== "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman =================================== "Computer science is the new mathematics." - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou =================================== -- =================================== "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/d/optout.
