[sage-edu] Sage PREP workshop

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Grout
Dear everyone, This is a short plug for the Sage MAA PREP program this summer: Sage: Using Open-Source Mathematics Software with Undergraduates (by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Rob Beezer, and myself; see http://www.maa.org/prep/2010/sage.html and http://wiki.sagemath.org/prep/2010 ). I know it's b

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Are Revolutionizing Education

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: interactive mathematics in education. Perhaps, is someone willing to write about how to use Sage's interactive math features in a classroom Hopefully the PREP workshop directors will do something like this in preparation for the workshop! They are pretty snowed under right

[sage-edu] Re:probability

2010-01-29 Thread Pablo Angulo
I'm afraid I can't help you with 1 or 2, but regarding 3: How about computing the probability of a poker, the brute force way? You have to check the time it takes in your computer, I used a 40 card deck and it took a few seconds: def poker(hand): ranks=[n for n,m in hand]

[sage-edu] Re: Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Are Revolutionizing Education

2010-01-29 Thread kcrisman
> interactive mathematics in education. Perhaps, is someone willing to > write about how to use Sage's interactive math features in a classroom Hopefully the PREP workshop directors will do something like this in preparation for the workshop! They are pretty snowed under right now, though :) > s

[sage-edu] Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Are Revolutionizing Education

2010-01-29 Thread Harald Schilly
"""One key theme is how educators are getting more creative in their classrooms through using interactive examples of the concepts they are teaching.""" http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/01/28/mathematica-and-wolframalpha-are-revolutionizing-education/ I'm posting this here to highlight that others ar

Re: [sage-edu] sage notebook not reachable from outside virtualbox

2010-01-29 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Pawel, I'm CC'ing your email to the sage-support mailing list, where more people could help out with the problem you're reporting. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Pawel Bartoszek wrote: > I have been using Sage in teaching for some while now and I have huge > issues with VirtualBox. > > Gen

[sage-edu] sage notebook not reachable from outside virtualbox

2010-01-29 Thread Pawel Bartoszek
I have been using Sage in teaching for some while now and I have huge issues with VirtualBox. Generally the problem is that the students cannot access the Ip- address in question from their firefox browser. Sometimes this never works and sometimes this works for first few sessions and then fails t