Nikos Apostolakis wrote: > "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> By strange coincidence, I am familiar with SAGE, MAPLE TA, and >> math validation and placement (I'm one of only two at my school >> who gets some summer pay for doing this)! >> > > Great, then I know where to ask questions if I ever start working on > this! > >> I think this would be great, but significant work (obviously) to get set up. > > Right! That's why I asked if anybody has already done it ;) > > I may start working on this during the summer but this depends on > many factors beyond my control. > >> My recommendation, in case someone wants to do this, is >> to use SAGE in conjunction with OKUSON >> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~OKUSON/ > > I didn't know about OKUSON, thanks for the info. It seems very > promising, I'll look at it more carefully over the Spring break next > week. How hard do you think will be to hook it to sage?
It depends on your design ideas and how well you read German. Some of the examples are in German, but okuson is written in Python. Also, the two authors are mathematicians (in fact, GAP developers), so have a connection with SAGE already. One idea worth considering is to try to run such a TA entirely through the SAGE notebook. Depending on how you plan to design the TA, this might require timed pages (they get locked after a certain time. I don't think this is supported currently (or even if you want to go that way). William Stein or Tom Boothby would be the people to ask, if that is what you want to do. One design scenatio: you use the notebook and someone (say Tom) wrote support for a timed, locked page, then you would design a worksheet (a locked page which would allow cell entries but no other changes) which had you questions pretyped but with empty cells under each one: Problem: Expand (x + y)^2. BLANK CELL The test-taker would type their answer into the cell and SAGE would compare that to the correct answer. > > > Best, > Nikos > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
