On 11/11/10 12:15 PM, Chris Seberino wrote:
Does there exist Sage notebooks for high school subjects like algebra,
geometry and precalculus that are so thorough that they are basically
like interactive textbooks?
Calculus&Mathematica seems to be an innovative program to create
similar "interactive textbooks" for Mathematica for calculus.
Anyone know of such a project or if NSF or anyone else would be
interested in funding development of such Sage interactive textbooks?
Several people have a rather large grant from the NSF for the next three
years to write a system for doing such textbooks and use the system to
convert a number of undergraduate textbooks to interactive notebooks,
among other things. See [1] (the UTMOST grant). Right now, Rob Beezer
is the point man in developing that interactive textbook conversion system.
There have already been several smaller grants awarded to various other
people to produce curricular materials on a smaller scale (for
undergrads, I believe). My guess is that there is funding out there
that could be awarded for writing curricular materials for high school
subjects as well. I don't know of good sources for high school
curricular material funding, though.
One nice thing about the CCLI grant below is that there is also quite a
bit of money in it directed to making Sage better for the classroom. I
suggest that if people write grants for developing curricular materials,
they include some money for programmers to develop or polish features
they may want as they write the materials. One nice thing about
open-source software is that the curriculum and needs drive the
development (e.g., I've written several functions in Sage solely because
I planned on using them in class in the semester to illustrate
something, and thought others would appreciate the functions too). So
if you include money for development work, you get to influence the
capabilities of the system to make your curricular materials more
successful.
Thanks,
Jason
[1] http://artsci.drake.edu/grout/doku.php/grants#nsf_ccli_phase_2_grant
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