So I would ask: do you have a computer lab available? Can you maybe convince some below- and above-average students to take on a new after- school activity once a week, where they experiment with math in Sage? <<
This is exactly what I've been up to the last few years. Are you a mind reader, John? I have a "Computing Independent Study" class that meets once a week after school where we are playing with Clusters. We also do research on using various scientific computing environments (SAGE, Octave, R) in a PC Classroom setting. Hence the approval to run a "Calculus Research Lab" every other day for my Calculus students to use SAGE (in addition to the TI-89s they use in Calculus class).
I had one problem with this Lab, however. The new course proposal was approved very late last year so guidance couldn't schedule kids into it for September. I'm trying to get kids to sign up for it now for the Spring (every day) but their schedules are so packed that I don't think I can get enough students for a section although I have had a lot of interest in the course.
HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College
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