Re: [sage-edu] Ted talk on math and computers

2010-11-30 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 at 10:40AM -0800, kcrisman wrote: > This space has often talked about the relation between math and > computers in education. Conrad Wolfram (yes, the brother of that > Wolfram) has a very engaging talk about this in the Ted series. (If > you've never checked out the Ted talks,

Re: [sage-edu] Plotting trigonometric functions

2010-11-30 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/30/2010 03:36 PM, David Joyner wrote: Does the page http://sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/plot/plot.html help? You can search the page for the text "tick" to see examples which might be relevant. From that page: sage:g1 = plot(sin(x), 0, 2*pi) sage:g2 = plot(cos(x), 0, 2*pi, li

Re: [sage-edu] Plotting trigonometric functions

2010-11-30 Thread David Joyner
Does the page http://sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/plot/plot.html help? You can search the page for the text "tick" to see examples which might be relevant. I'm cc'ing sage-support in case others there know a better answer. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Maura Murray wrote: > Hi, > > Is ther

Re: [sage-edu] Plotting trigonometric functions

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I don't know the answer to your question, but I bet you'd have better luck on sage-support. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Maura Murray wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to change the axes in plot so that the ticks are > marked at intervals of pi/4 or pi/2? > > Thanks, > Maura > > P.S.- If

[sage-edu] Plotting trigonometric functions

2010-11-30 Thread Maura Murray
Hi, Is there an easy way to change the axes in plot so that the ticks are marked at intervals of pi/4 or pi/2? Thanks, Maura P.S.- If I've posted this question to the wrong forum, please let me know a better place to post the question. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subsc

[sage-edu] Ted talk on math and computers

2010-11-30 Thread kcrisman
This space has often talked about the relation between math and computers in education. Conrad Wolfram (yes, the brother of that Wolfram) has a very engaging talk about this in the Ted series. (If you've never checked out the Ted talks, you should - there is also one about AIMS, for instance, as