On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Colin Macdonald <macdon...@maths.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in > their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lower years.
Some info is here: http://www.sagemath.org/library-books.html http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_with_SAGE http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/index.html http://linear.ups.edu/sage-fcla.html > > Also, any advice in convincing one's peers and institution that Sage > is an appropriate path to take? In particular, in switching away from > a proprietary product. > > My department is moving away from Maple as a component in our first > year teaching, and I may be in a position to influence what we start > using next September. I haven't looked over the ciriculum of the > current course but it might include calculus, linear algebra, > differential equations and various pure maths. It depends how much money your dept really needs to save and if they believe their students can learn the Sage syntax. Sage syntax is not that much different than Maple or Mma syntax but a lot of the students' success depends on how much work they put into it. I would emphasize that the students who have internet access do not need to install Sage since they can use it via a Sage server you can set up at your university. See www.sagenb.org (which has several thousand users, so I suggest you install one locally behind a firewall for your students to use themselves). Hope that helps some. > > thanks, > Colin > > -- > Colin Macdonald > University Lecturer in Numerical Analysis > Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College > University of Oxford > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
