On Aug 10, 3:49 pm, "A. Jorge Garcia" <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > I finally got the go ahead at my school to run a course they call > Calculus Research Lab (CRL). I wanted to call it Scientific Computing > Lab, but that's beside the point. I have a little experience using > SAGE in my PC Lab/Classroom as I started using it in my intro Computer > Science class last year to run a new Discrete Math with Python course. > > CRL will be a computer lab course using SAGE that meets one period > every other day, like a science lab, in addition to the traditional AP > Calculus class. I'm basing the lab primarily on David Joyner's great > introductory texts from this > site,http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/index.html. > I have to focus on Calculus I (Differential Calculus) and Calculus II > (Integral Calculus) but I hope to do a little of the Differential > Equations text too. > > I'm curious if anyone out there has had success with using SAGE at > this level. I'm in a US High School setting, but Freshman or Sophomore > College level experience would also be helpful. Any pointers or other > resources you can recommend will be greatly appreciated!
I think there a lot of people who have had success with Sage in Calculus - there are a number on the web, I like John Perry's notes myself. But since you are talking about the "lab" aspect, I would strongly suggest looking at syllabi from similar courses in colleges that say they have a "lab" component. Even if they use Mma or Maple or something else, they will give ideas. Unfortunately, I don't have many ideas for you :) but here is one: Try using chaos-related discovery in the labs. The best example of this is Newton's method - finding basins of attraction is fun, I think. See http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1317/ for a few other ideas. Warning: these are just ideas; I ended up making the labs much smaller than the first year, because we do *not* have a lab component and it proved too tricky to incorporate lab-like stuff in that situation. Good luck! - kcrisman -- 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.
