[sage-edu] Re: Teaching Sage at AIMS

2010-11-25 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Karl-Dieter, AIMS runs on a Northern hemisphere schedule. Roughly September 1 through May. Some of the lecturers from the UK have three weeks of their time donated by their university so they can come and lecture for that period. The first few months the students take two courses at a time,

[sage-edu] Re: Teaching Sage at AIMS

2010-11-25 Thread kcrisman
Rob - thanks for continuing to post on this issue. I have been mentioning AIMS a lot to my students this semester - as a reminder that in places outside the US, math can be seen as an opportunity, not a chore. A couple questions I think are worth addressing is whether their activities are usuall