I also use Sage math (although I maintain my own server) for my physical chemistry class. I'm sure there is some overlap between our interests. I'm buried in paper work, but will try to look at what you've done soon. I expect it will be useful to me. Thank you for sharing this.
Presently, I primarily teach them how to use Sage for derivatives, integrals and as a symbolic calculator. I'm still struggling with a good way to make the interval arithmetic package work smoothly with the way we do significant figures. Other than exercises on differentiation and integrals, I mostly provide it as another tool and show examples of how to use it in problem set answer keys. I would really like to embed it more fully in my course as I use it very heavily myself. Jonathan On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:36:26 AM UTC-5, tbensky wrote: > > Dear All- > This is a continuation of a thread in the cloud-sage group (but this is a > more appropriate group): > > I am using cloud.sage in an undergraduate physics course on electricity > and magnetism. There is > a lot of mathematical manipulation and calculus in this course, so I am > attempting to introduce students > to the use of the computer to do the math. I am in a "high tech" > classroom with 12 computers (3 students/computer) > that we can break off into to use cloud.sagemath.com. I also tell > students to bring their laptop to connect if they wish. > I am trying to wean them off of their TIxx calculators (which they love so > much) and introduce them to the computational > abilities of computers. > > I thought I would post some of my curriculum materials here, in case any > of you might be interested. I'll keep updating > this post with more materials. > > Quick reference (evolving): > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxdiFzopt17AetvSvrQS9ktbvIvKr88HDKXXaaHfy6s/edit?usp=sharing > > Introduction to Sagemath for undergraduates in this class: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/17f3FUBgb_-Ju2EctyS5P5XQXKAIIwXt6Wl-7q2kwa50/edit?usp=sharing > > Doing integrals and limits that come up in this course: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8DnVlUj4vAsXuCcGq-fF4OVPP5pJV6UFjym4F5_Xhw/edit?usp=sharing > > Regards, > Tom B. > > > Professor of Physics > California Polytechnic State University > San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 > tbe...@calpoly.edu <javascript:> > http://www.calpoly.edu/~tbensky > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
