Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:58 PM, michel paul wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul >> wrote: > > >> >> > What web browser are you guys using? > > > Chrome. If I find them using IE I scold them. : ) :-)I just check

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul > wrote: > > > What web browser are you guys using? > Chrome. If I find them using IE I scold them. : ) > I hadn't realized that you were connecting from a really flaky -- > I guess that co

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> For what it's worth -- I don't know when you were testing, > > > Well, today. It's weird, even very simple things can inexplicably hang. What is the ping time listed in the upper rig

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM, William Stein wrote: > For what it's worth -- I don't know when you were testing, Well, today. It's weird, even very simple things can inexplicably hang. However - it's definitely way better than it used to be. Last year a student created a local network that w

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/25/13 2:13 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: I use dedicated notebook servers for a linear optimization class with patches from http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14288 Cool; thanks for sharing. We're talking about linear programming and the simplex method right now in my modeling c

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:16 PM, michel paul wrote: > I teach at the high school level, and I'm finding a combination of cloud > accounts and the single cell server pretty versatile. It is unfortunately > the case that both tend to drag when used by more than a few students at a > time in our scho

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
I teach at the high school level, and I'm finding a combination of cloud accounts and the single cell server pretty versatile. It is unfortunately the case that both tend to drag when used by more than a few students at a time in our school lab, but these days all students can pretty easily access

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi We use standalone installs on Linux desktops and laptops. Is resistant to mobility (students can take it with them after class), and loss of connectivity or low connectivity or power oputages, and there is no central point of failure as a Sage server has. However, sharing of worksheets not as

[sage-edu] Re: Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
I've used prepared interacts for Sage Cell a lot in multivariate calculus: http://sage.math.ualberta.ca/MATH209/ I completely hide the code to make it as non-intimidating as possible. The page above is just an alphabetical list, for the class I actually post individual links in appropriate topic

[sage-edu] Re: Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, October 25, 2013 9:54:38 AM UTC-4, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Hello > > How do you use some version of Sage in a class? >> > > I definitely have done the one-off interacts in the Sage cell for classes. This worked very well for giving "interactive" problems to introduce new concepts

[sage-edu] Re: Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread john_perry_usm
Hello How do you use some version of Sage in a class? > In an Honors Calculus class, I use it both to illustrate concepts from time to time, and to give assignments where students approach certain problems experimentally, trying to guess a conclusion. We also run a "Mathematical Computation" c

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 at 10:02PM -0500, Theron Hitchman wrote: > How do you use some version of Sage in a class? Before the cell server, I used notebooks with prepared @interacts. Later I just used the cell server. Mostly for differential equations classes. This is a great use that requires no train