Well, I started by having them construct very simple algebraic functions
like f(x) = 2^x - 5, in both Python and Sage syntax, and then asking them to
create lists of ordered pairs such as [(x, f(x)) for x in [-10..10]]. We
did a bunch of these in the lab one day till they were comfortable creating
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So, for example, write a function that will return a list of the
reciprocals of the values in list L. Now write a function,
harmonic(n), that will return the nth harmonic number making use of the
previous reciprocal function. Yeah, I had to ask just the right
questions, and it was a lot of
> Sound familiar to anyone?
Absolutely! Yeah, the average HS student just wants to be told what to do.
So this has been very tricky - how to get the kids to use something like
Sage/Python as a way to explore ideas on their own when all they really want
is to be told exactly what steps to follow t
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Chris Seberino wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 11:22 am, William Stein wrote:
>> Are you physically with the students or is this all being done over
>> the internet with chat?
>
> online with phone conference
>
>> My experience with (unusually bright, enthusiastic) high sc
On Dec 9, 11:22 am, William Stein wrote:
> Are you physically with the students or is this all being done over
> the internet with chat?
online with phone conference
> My experience with (unusually bright, enthusiastic) high school
> students is that they can be far less inhibited about asking
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Chris Seberino wrote:
> I tried an experiment where new math topics are introduced by having
> students independently work through Sage notebooks.
>
> Rather than me pushing info to the students in a dialog, they were
> supposed to ask me questions when they got stu
I tried an experiment where new math topics are introduced by having
students independently work through Sage notebooks.
Rather than me pushing info to the students in a dialog, they were
supposed to ask me questions when they got stuck on something in the
Sage notebook.
It seems that high studen
Paul,
Jmol has already solved this problem. The issue is that we have to
convert the type of files that are produced for Jmol in SAGE. For the
time being you can use the same method that SAGE uses. In the
directory you will find two files:
1) A file with the extension .jmol. This is a short
