YAY and HOORAY! Congratulations, I know you guys have been working hard on a lot of good materials at USM.
On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 12:29:56 AM UTC-4, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Dear Sage-edu readers > > My institution offers a special course for math and math licensure majors > which relies on a computer algebra system. Some years ago, we decided to > switch from a proprietary system to Sage, and we haven't regretted it, > except for one thing: we couldn't really find a textbook that quite met our > curious mix of needs. So, we resolved to write our own, and the selfsame > institution supported us with a summer grant. > > It took a while, and we attach the result both for your silent > entertainment (e.g., "It took them this long to write THIS?!?") and for > your constructive input, if you wish. We are interested in any relevant > input (not e.g., "It took them this long to write THIS?!?" but, for > instance, everything from the title & the license to the very goals, > organization, and structure, to say nothing of unjustifiable outright > mendacity -- you might have to read a little bit to see what we mean by > that). > > We will use this in our Spring edition of the course (no humane treatment > board approval required, amazingly) but the electronic text will be > available at no charge, and with our current publishing arrangement > (non-peer-reviewed, on demand publisher) we can submit revisions at any > time & know that future printings will incorporate the changes. Eventually > we may seek a more traditional publishing arrangement, if only for a formal > peer review, but regardless we first would like input on the text itself > from smart people who are interested in using Sage for education -- as > that, perhaps, is the best sort of peer review we could use. > > If nothing else, we hope it conveys our respect for the Sage community. > > regards > john perry > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
