Wow, that came out worse, here we go again: I teach two courses that are new to my school this year using SAGE and by extension python. I also teach AP CompSci (used to be AB, now it's A).
The first is a rewrite of my "Computer Math" course using Maria and Gary Litvin's new text "Mathematics for the Digital Age." This course used to be an intro to computer science and is a pre-requisite to my AP Computer Science. Now its more of a Discrete Math class but we use SAGE and do plenty of python. Mainly Regents track Juniors and Honors track Sophomores take this class. The second is a lab course, "Calculus Research Lab" (I wanted to call it Scientific Computing Lab," but my boss changed it), that meets every other day like a science class for my AP Calculus BC students. We use several free pdf texts from http://www.sagemath.org to do Calculus in a computer lab setting and we use some python. These students are very over scheduled, so this new lab is not required. To get enough kids to sign up for this new course, I had to open it up to the AP Calculus AB students too, so there's a lot of review for my BC kids which ain't all bad. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@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.
