William wrote: > >> I thought that chart was crazy until a few days ago when I visited > >> a friend > >> of my wife who lives in Phoenix who teaches high school and community > >> college mathematics (he is a Russian with a masters from U of A). > >> The world of "math computation" for them is whatever > >> a TI-83 calculator can do -- seriously. And when we talked about > >> Sage, he immediately thought of how useful it could be -- as a web > >> service -- > >> in the context of the classes he teaches.
Ondrej wrote: > > It's all about calculus. I am willing to make a bet that 90% of Sage > > users will > > only need calculus. So it ought to work really, really well. It's > > still a long way though. William wrote: > I agree. That's one reason I'm so happy you are now a sage developer! > > Probably 2d and 3d visualization are also at least as important as > calculus to the target audience we are talking about. Linear algebra > and numerical solving is also extremely important... (thanks mike and > robertwb for implementing symbolic matrices for 2.9.1!!!!) > > Ted, what functionality do you see as being most important for the > "scientific calculator" target audience you have in your pie chart? I do not know what specific functionality SAGE is missing in order to be usable in primary and secondary schools, but I think I have a good way to find out. Here is a TI-83 online classroom activities resource that TI makes available to teachers: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/activityexchange/activity_list.do?cid=us My thought is to go through each of these activity links and send an email to the teacher that created the activity to ask permission to create a SAGE version of it. This process should uncover most of the deficiencies that SAGE may have from the point of view of the scientific calculator target audience and it should also be an excellent way to market SAGE to this audience. A good time to contact these teachers is a couple of weeks after school starts in January and I am in the process of preparing to do this. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
