David, Thanks for the thoughts.
I like your idea of using additional tabs or a toolbar. My idea of math operations could be implemented in a toolbar that sends code to a Sage session. Although it is a UI issue, I think it important for students to see the whole universe of possible operations and let them try them. Over time, they will understand when to use each one. The "personal notebook" is a way for students to store and share the steps they use to solve a math problem. After playing with Sage a bit more, I think that it can save sessions. > I can't think of a way to do that offhand, except to try to design the > assigned worksheet to be part manual and part computational. The problem with Sage is that it is a very powerful symbolic calculator. In order to be more of a learning tool, I would like the teacher to be able to disable certain operations. This way, the teacher can make sure that the basic skills are not deteriorating with such a powerful tool. This is probably best handled in the session file I mentioned above. The file contains a transcript of everything that was typed during a Sage session. Maybe with some modifications, the file could also contain a list of operations that are valid. If a student tries an operation that was disabled, then they must do it manually. > > 5. I think that it would be beneficial to have different modes so > > students can easily move between tables, graphs, and symbolic > > representations. > > I'm not sure if I understand what this means. IN any case, at the moment, > Sage does not have a nice "gui" for creating a table, eg as in entering > data into a spreadsheet-like form. > Maybe we could use your previous idea about multiple tabs and send the data from the Sage tab to a tab that can graph it. This could also be handled by your other excellent idea - - the toolbar. Let's keep the conversation going. My big worry is that I am long ideas and short on coding skills. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
