RE: [sage-edu] Re: Coming SageMathCell upgrade - please test!

2016-04-17 Thread 'calcpage' via sage-edu
Nope, I have the same problem using Chrome on Droid from NYC, USA.Sincerely,A. Jorge Garciahttp://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-edu] arclength issue?

2015-11-20 Thread 'calcpage' via sage-edu
Thank you! Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: David Joyner Date: 2015/11/20 14:17 (GMT-05:00) To: SAGE edu Subject: Re: [sage-edu] arclength issue? On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:48 PM, 'Jorge Garcia' via sage-edu wrote: > Hello e

RE: [sage-edu] Sage in High School Physics Course

2015-08-26 Thread 'calcpage' via sage-edu
Feel free to use my sagecells for my high school preCalc and calculus classes. U should see them as sidebars to my blog:http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com  HTH,A. Jorge Garcia Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [sage-edu] sagecell

2014-10-08 Thread calcpage via sage-edu
sagecell is working great in my precalc class. Take a look at some sagecells I linked to the top right hand section of myblog (below masthead): http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com HTH, AJG Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: michel paul To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Se

Re: [sage-edu] Power Regression question

2014-03-01 Thread calcpage
Sorry about that. I had to edit some typos and I was unable to do so without deleting the post and reposting it. Regards, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.YouTube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: David Joyner To: SAGE ed

Re: [sage-edu] High School Algebra with Sage

2013-10-06 Thread calcpage
Anyone doing the Hour of Code promoted by Code.org? It's the week of 12/9-12/15 in honor of Grace Murray Hopper. Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: michel paul To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [sage-edu] High School Algebra wi

Re: [sage-edu] High School Algebra with Sage

2013-10-05 Thread calcpage
Yup, I have my geek squad (Computing Independent Study) reinstall all 25 PCs in my classroom with the latest version of Ubuntu every October. Years ago we used RedHat, before that Knoppix and before that Slakware! Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Brandon Murry To:

Re: [sage-edu] High School Algebra with Sage

2013-10-05 Thread calcpage
I've been converting my High School Math classes to Sage. See my YouTube channel, http://www.YouTube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: michel paul To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [sage-edu] High School Algeb

Re: [sage-edu] Sage session at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics meeting rejected

2013-08-26 Thread calcpage
That's odd. I speak about Sage at T^3 and LIMACON all the time! Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Brad Burkman To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 3:22 PM Subject: [sage-edu] Sage session at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics meeting rejecte

Re: [sage-edu] David Joyner's MOSAIC talk is now up

2011-04-27 Thread calcpage
Great video! However, Admiral Lord Nelson died not knowing if his strategy worked! True, the battle followed Lanchaster's diffequs but shouldn't the coefficients A and B be equal it or close to it? Nelson's genius in the face of such odds was to treat the enemy force as 2 separate fleets. He sen

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Improvements to the notebook worksheet

2011-03-24 Thread Calcpage
Well, the examples i've seen of @interact allow input at the beginning of a process such as a loop. That's great but my students were making a rock, scissors, paper, lizard, Spock game where they wanted to have a computer player vs a human player. The program needs to stop after every round

Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-30 Thread Calcpage
Oh, I see, a timestamp could an issue. You could tell them that they need to share by such and such. They can share and reedit as much as they like until then. I call it "Share Once, Reedit Many!" Tell them that anything shared after the deadline will not be graded? When I do graded project

Re: [sage-edu] computational thinking - 21st century algebra

2010-10-30 Thread Calcpage
I'm giving a K-12 conference on SAGE next Friday too (Molloy College T^3)! I would recommend clemix. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my iPod On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:19 PM, michel paul

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-09 Thread Calcpage
But I think sagenb itself might be the issue. Hope this helps. - Michel On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Calcpage wrote: Yup, I shift clicked and got some sort of text editor. So, I editted something fine, but when I leave that cell for another all that displays is the text I wrote with

Re: [sage-edu] howto add fancy text to my worksheets?

2010-10-09 Thread Calcpage
Yup, I shift clicked and got some sort of text editor. So, I editted something fine, but when I leave that cell for another all that displays is the text I wrote with some HTML... What is ctrl click for? Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC http://shadowfaxrant.b

Re: [sage-edu] outline of Sage tutorial for high school students

2010-07-17 Thread Calcpage
Wow, that's a good outline! There's a lot of work left to do, however, namely how to best introduce SAGE concepts along with math concepts. One silly question, what the heck is a "surd?" A couple of suggestions, maybe you could add the cross product in the chapter on vectors and matrices.

Re: [sage-edu] Trying to build a SageServer for my calculus class: A SageServer Vbox appliance?

2010-06-21 Thread Calcpage
I didn't have time to setup a SAGE server. Please see my latest blog post for what did! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Sent from my iPod On Jun 21, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Calcpage wrot

Re: [sage-edu] Trying to build a SageServer for my calculus class: A SageServer Vbox appliance?

2010-06-17 Thread Calcpage
Why set up a virtual box when you have linux? Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Sent from my iPod On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Bruce Cohen wrote: It's summertime, and I thought I would have time to build a Sage server for my 65 (or so) calculus stude

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE demo and Linux youtube recording studio!

2010-06-17 Thread calcpage
Yes, I've used gtk-recordmydesktop which renders *.ogg files. I prefer screencast-o-matic as I need *.mp4 files for YouTube and these files are more portable. My students can view them easily in windows, linux or mac environments. I have also used Smart Recorder but it takes forever to rende

Re: [sage-edu] SAGE demo and Linux youtube recording studio!

2010-06-16 Thread calcpage
Yes, I used my favorite online recorder, http://screencast-o-matic.com, which is per force cross platform! This site makes it very easy to record your desktop + your voice as an *.mp4 file which is compatible with youtube! I use the same hardware and software in Windows and Linux to record my

[sage-edu] SAGE demo and Linux youtube recording studio!

2010-06-16 Thread calcpage
OK, I got my "youtube recording studio" working on my 64bit dual-core athlon using Ubuntu 10.04! See what you think about my first recording demoing SAGE: http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physi

Re: Re: [sage-edu] what should be taught?

2010-06-08 Thread calcpage
Comgrats! I really like what I am hearing here! I won that battle last year, but the aprooval came so late that it could not be scheduled. This year I am having trouble with enrolment as these kids are booked! I am trying to run a Calculus Research Lab using SAGE and the free Calculus PDFs

Re: [sage-edu] what should be taught?

2010-06-08 Thread calcpage
When I taught http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/teach/sm450.html (python and some fairly advanced discrete math), << Thanx, Dr. Joyner, for your notes from sm450! I have been pouring over them for the last few months since you shared them with me. Your course is way over the heads of my in

[sage-edu] linear programming anyone?

2010-06-07 Thread calcpage
I started doing some linear programming today using SAGE in class when I suddenly realized that I did not know how to use plot() to graph inequalities! Anyone have any pointers for teaching this topic using SAGE? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mat

Re: [sage-edu] what should be taught?

2010-06-07 Thread Calcpage
Yes! I am using the Litvins' text too. I have been using my AP Computer Science class as guinea pigs trying out this text. It is definitely at a very introductory level and I am going to use it as such. With my intro kids it will probably take 2 semesters especially if I do a 2 week fin

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Long Island MAth CONference (LIMACON 2010 at SUNY Old Westbury)

2010-05-19 Thread calcpage
Funny you should mention the puppy linux version. I burned a few copies of that ISO today but none of them booted. The md5sum checked out right after downloading. Once in a while I may hit a bad CD or a bad burner, but I used burners that never failed before and 3 CDs in a row failing is not

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Long Island MAth CONference (LIMACON 2010 at SUNY Old Westbury)

2010-04-21 Thread calcpage
Oh, yes it was still worth while for my participants. I showed them how I use a VTI (Virtual TI) calculator on my smartboard so I realy do "look ma, no calculator" in class! I also demoed sagenb a bit. I went offline toshow them some more with the SAGE CD which I gave out at the conference t

[sage-edu] Long Island MAth CONference (LIMACON 2010 at SUNY Old Westbury)

2010-04-20 Thread calcpage
OK, I gave it the good 'ol college try! I tried to compare and contrast teaching with a Graphing Calculator vs. SAGE at a conference I spoke at last Friday. My presentation was entitled "Look Ma, No Calculator!" The only problem I had was, when I had everyone log into http://www.sagenb.org,

Re: [sage-edu] Re: "sine and unit circle" interact demo

2010-04-03 Thread calcpage
Wow, a wrapping function demo/interact/animation - cool! I'd love to see more! 5hanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message because you a

Re: [sage-edu] Re: MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-26 Thread calcpage
Yes, see http://www.sagemath.org/library-books.html << Yes, I've seen this. The Linear Algebra text is monstruously long! I don't see any Calc III or Multivariate Calculus or Vector Calculus texts. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, P

Re: [sage-edu] Re: MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
What about this one: http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1839 where I solve ax=b for x where a is a 2x2 matrix and b is 2x1 so x is 2x1. My question is, what if I want to solve the same system of equations as xa=b where a is 2x2 and b is 1x2 so x should be 1x2? BTW, now that I have my matrix al

Re: [sage-edu] Re: MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
Yes, I did try all this in SAGE successfully based on your help! Thanx so much! Please see my recent posts for published worksheets showing my attempts Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High

Re: [sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
Here's another answer to my own question! http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1838 Thanx for your help, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message

Re: [sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
Thanx for all your help! I am now able to answer my own question: http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1837 HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this

Re: [sage-edu] Re: MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
How about this? SAMPLE OCTAVE INPUT FILE: #!/usr/bin/octave -q diary matrix1.txt %matrix1.m MrG 2009.0527 %purpose: practice with matrix arithmetic %initialize 2 matrices of dimension 2x2 a=[1 5;-1 2] b=[-2 1;1 1] %matrix sums c=a+b d=b-a %matrix products e=a*b f=b*a g=a**2 h=b**3 %m

Re: [sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
Note that you can use Octave/Matlab from the Sage notebook, if you wanted. << This requires that I install MATLAB or Octave, right? As root, I'm trying to minimize my overhead, so I'll be installing SAGE only if possible! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professo

Re: [sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-25 Thread calcpage
http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1833 << Wow, this is very nice, thank you! Its especially convenient to edit/save a copy in my own sagenb account! Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & N

Re: [sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-24 Thread calcpage
Well, that was easy! So are these SAGE objects that you have to construct? Its not clear where this code comes from. Is it a python object, is it from maxima, gap, what? Still, these constructs do not preserve the matrix paradigm from MATLAB. For example, in MATLAB you can pass a matrix as

[sage-edu] MATLAB/Octave convert!

2010-03-24 Thread calcpage
OK, I use SAGE in my teaching a lot now. Its great for algebra, trig, precalc, plots in 2D and 3D, limits, derivatives and integrals both analytic and numerical. There's only one thing holding me back from using SAGE exclusively. I come from the MATLAB/Octave world and miss the matrix paradi

Re: [sage-edu] Re: @interact for Simpson's Rule?

2010-03-20 Thread calcpage
The "DATA+" construct is the notebook's way of letting you access this file within commands in the worksheet. << Can I use this DATA construct to import data files I'm using on my local PC while using a worksheet on http://www.sagenb.org? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teac

Re: [sage-edu] SAGE in High School

2010-03-13 Thread calcpage
Thanx so much for the link! I will definitely look at your sm450 course! Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message because you are subsc

[sage-edu] SAGE in High School

2010-03-13 Thread calcpage
Just an update for you: (1) I think I finally have approval AND enrollment for my "Calculus Research Lab." I will be using the Calculus texts/pdfs listed on the http://www.sagemath.org website. This is a lab that meets everyother day in addition to my AP Calculus class like a science lab but

[sage-edu] rocks clusters rock!

2010-03-11 Thread calcpage
Just wondering if anyone is using SAGE on a cluster in general or on a rocks cluster in specific and how? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received t

Re: [sage-edu] Re: sagenb.org

2010-02-23 Thread calcpage
I don't use SAGE in class as often as I would like. However, the other day I gave a demo of SAGE to several classes and use sagenb all day no problem. Also, you could burn copies of the SAGE CD for students to boot on their home computers. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Tea

[sage-edu] @parallel decorator

2010-02-03 Thread calcpage
I just saw on Planet SAGE an example using the @parallel decorator. This sounds very interesting, but is it only for SMP, ie multi core, or can it be extended to work over a cluster? It looks to me that using openMPI and mpi4Py is very complex. How "easy" is it to use parallel python over a

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE live CD?

2010-02-03 Thread calcpage
Your puppy linux SAGE CD sounds very interesting. Yes, I found out that the SAGE CD is based on UBUNTU 9.04 (as stated during boot up) and is a 32 bit version (as it works on my old 32 bit linux box). Anyone know if there's a 64 bit version of the SAGE liveCD in the works? Thanx, A. Jorge Ga

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE live CD?

2010-02-03 Thread calcpage
Oh, that's interesting! Is it easy to make a bootable ISO in puppy linux? Also, you say you have SAGE and octave? isn't that redundant? Don't get me wrong, I have used octave for years and love it but I was under the impression that scyPy is included with SAGE and is very similar to octave,

[sage-edu] SAGE live CD?

2010-02-01 Thread calcpage
I was about to download the latest SAGE live CD when I noticed that there's only one version of the ISO. Here's a few questions about the current ISO: Last time I burned the CD there was a 32bit and a 64bit version (4.1?). It looks like this one is based on SAGE 4.2, but I would like to know

Re: [sage-edu] dSage, where for art thou, dSage?

2010-02-01 Thread calcpage
OK, let me get this straight - if I download SAGE binaries (or source files to compile) to install locally on my linux boxes on my LAN, I can use parallel python to run a cluster? In other words, is pp included when installing SAGE locally? HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Tea

Re: [sage-edu] dSage, where for art thou, dSage?

2010-02-01 Thread calcpage
Wow, we can use paraellel python, aka pp, in Sage? That's good to know, I will definitely be looking into this! BTW, how does the @parallel decorator work? Is this part of pp? HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science

Re: [sage-edu] dSage, where for art thou, dSage?

2010-02-01 Thread calcpage
Oh, OK, so to use dSage I need to install an spkg locally. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[sage-edu] dSage, where for art thou, dSage?

2010-01-31 Thread calcpage
Just wondering is the dSage project has been deprecated? I don't see it listed in the online reference manual anymore: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/networking.html I do see it listed here: http://www.sagemath.org/tour-research.html The only mention of parallel processing is with para

Re: [sage-edu] new ** SAGE related ** blogs for your reading pleasure!

2010-01-25 Thread calcpage
OK, I added some more detail to the blog regarding my SAGE presentation. See how you like it! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this messag

Re: [sage-edu] new ** SAGE related ** blogs for your reading pleasure!

2010-01-25 Thread calcpage
Oh, OK, well those links are to all my other websites. All my sites point to eachother, that's just the way I organize them. Maybe I'll add some more details. Thanx for the input! 5hanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Sc

Re: [sage-edu] new ** SAGE related ** blogs for your reading pleasure!

2010-01-25 Thread calcpage
I thought you all would be interested in SAGE promotion. Who knows, maybe someone on the list may want to attend. What ads are you referring to? I got rid of all that after there was a complaint yesterday. TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathemat

Re: [sage-edu] How using Sage for high school math effectively?

2010-01-25 Thread calcpage
You are welcome for the link to Xournal and Screencast-o-matic. Well, I've heard the term FOSS and FLOSS used quite extensively to mean "Free Open Source Software" and "Free Linux Open Source Software" respectively. I did, however, make up the term FWOSS to mean "Free Windows Open Source Soft

Re: [sage-edu] new calculus videos on youtube!

2010-01-24 Thread calcpage
OOPs, sorry, that's the problem with youtube. I keep forgetting that its only a 10 minute sample of class. I've been trying to use SAGE more in class, but the students still need to use a TI Graphing Calculator for the AP exam, so I tend to use SAGE at the end of class. I'll make sure to pos

[sage-edu] new calculus videos on youtube!

2010-01-24 Thread calcpage
See how you like my new youtubes from last week's classes regarding L'Hopital's Rule, ArcSin(x), ArcCos(x), ArcTan(x) & Integration by Parts: http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Take a look at these materials for college algebra, harvard precalc, harvard calculus I, harvard calculus II and AP

Re: [sage-edu] Re: AP Calc reading 2010

2010-01-21 Thread calcpage
So if that is the situation, then I think an introduction to Sage would be a great talk for this audience. << Wow, cool, this is a great idea. Now I want to be a grader just to attend meetings like this! ...otherwise, they couldn't pay me enough to be an AP grader. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia htt

[sage-edu] new blogs for your reading pleasure!

2010-01-17 Thread calcpage
Take a look at my blog: http://calcpage.tripod.com/shadowfax and you’ll read 4 new articles! Topic: Thanx http://www.donorschoose.org! Thread: Learning with Technology Synopsis: using donors to get equipment for my PC Classroom Topic: Youtube Wednesdays are still going strong! Thread: Teaching w

[sage-edu] New Blog Articles for your reading pleasure!

2010-01-09 Thread calcpage
New Blog Articles for your reading pleasure! Please visit my website: http://calcpage.tripod.com and click on the link for my blog near the top of my homepage. You will see the following new articles: "Breaking up is hard to do!" (how to start a Computer Algebra based course in HS) "Where fore

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-09 Thread calcpage
Yep. And that's the whole problem. This seems 'challenging enough', and it looks enough like 'computational thinking', so no further discussion seems necessary. Why bother with computers when we already have these nifty hand held devices? << This is a hard arguement to overcome, especiall

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-09 Thread calcpage
Then in Analysis class we hit matrices this week, and Sage was perfect for this. I was able to show the kids how a matrix is just a list of lists, and I showed how simple it is to create a 'dumb' matrix in Python and then how to make it a 'smart' matrix in Sage. << Could you give an example

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-08 Thread calcpage
Last remark: having read the AP exam twice, I understand why they require graphing calculators. They want to ask certain kinds of questions on the AP exam, and those are generally beyond the scope of what one can do by hand. QED. I don't like it much, but parts of the AP exam are calculator-free

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-08 Thread calcpage
For the program itself, you could start by teaching them rudimentary programming, using as much as possible "real-world" problems to motivate each step. << What real world problems do you suggest? Is there a good textbook out there for this? Would you advise using SAGE and python as the pro

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-08 Thread calcpage
So I would ask: do you have a computer lab available? Can you maybe convince some below- and above-average students to take on a new after- school activity once a week, where they experiment with math in Sage? << This is exactly what I've been up to the last few years. Are you a mind reader,

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-08 Thread calcpage
I don't know if this is helpful, but something people have told me before is that if you can get it started independently (i.e. without administration support/money but with permission), and you subsequently demonstrate success, then you have a more powerful argument for progress than merely an

[sage-edu] Newton's Day Today!

2010-01-01 Thread calcpage
You can now visit my website http://calcpage.tripod.com and click on the link to my blog near the top of my homepage to see my post for New Year's Day! Enjoy, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High Scho

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-01 Thread calcpage
I like all your points. However, I think the statement: "it is neither necessary nor sufficient" a bit redundant. I would remove that statement, it does not really add to the argument IMHO. BTW, if its not necessary, how can it be sufficient? HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-12-31 Thread calcpage
>> Honors Calc at http://www.math.usm.edu/sage/ >> Mathematical Computing at http://www.math.usm.edu/perry/mat305fa09/ Wow, these sites are phenomenal!!! I wish there were more Calc II and Calc III materials, however! I wonder if a copy of these course materials could be mirrored on the SageMa

Re: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2009-12-20 Thread calcpage
>> >>"Computer science is the new mathematics." >> -- Dr. Christos Papadimitrious >I disagree strongly. The statement implies that computer science >supersedes or replaces mathematics, when it is merely another subset >of mathematics. True, but the new discipline may be best termed "Computing Scie

Re: [sage-edu] How using Sage for high school math effectively?

2009-12-19 Thread calcpage
OOPS, typo: For instance, instead of Smart Notebook to write notes with my tablet's pen I use Xournal (windows and linux) which exports to pdf. Also, imstead of Smart Recorder to make desktop recordings of my class, I use http://screencast-o-matic.com (internet app I use in windows and linux wit

Re: [sage-edu] How using Sage for high school math effectively?

2009-12-19 Thread calcpage
>> 2. I've experimented with Wii interactive boards (built my own infrared pen from a whiteboard marker, for example, and I have several more spare parts around for building several more). I'm interested in what works well for you with the Wii controller. << I tried this out a bit last year and

Re: [sage-edu] *Independently* doing Sage notebooks doesn't seem to work in high school...

2009-12-09 Thread calcpage
>> 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

Re: [sage-edu] How using Sage for high school math effectively?

2009-12-08 Thread calcpage
Yes, I use that Smart Airliner Slate too! Take a look at my Calculus youtubes: http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 In fact I just figured out how to use the the Airliner (which is really just a wacom tablet) in Linux using Xournal pen software instead of Smart Notebook and http://screencast-o

Re: [sage-edu] I did!!

2009-12-08 Thread calcpage
> This might sound a bit tangential to some but in my mind is very relevant. I > think using the Litvin text to create a Math/CS course would be awesome. I > think what would further motivate students overwhelming to the point of > forcing the faculty to seriously give this some consideration is

Re: [sage-edu] Re: We need to base math lessons on computers

2009-12-05 Thread calcpage
Sorry, I don't know why my post got stuck in this thread. I thught I started a new one - something about my mail client and this forum. I don't have this problem with other forums I post to... HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & C

Re: [sage-edu] Re: We need to base math lessons on computers

2009-12-05 Thread calcpage
OK, I've been mentoning SAGE a lot on my blog lately. My blog is linked to my website listed below. Enjoy, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received this

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE on a cluster?

2009-11-23 Thread calcpage
OK, this is interesting. Do you see processes migrating over the cluster? DO you see any speed up? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -Original Message--

[sage-edu] SAGE on a cluster?

2009-11-21 Thread calcpage
[I posted this in sage-support and thought it might be better to post it here. Sorry for the cross posting if you see this twice] I'm wondering if anyone is using SAGE on a cluster. I recall something about dSAGE a while back, is that still being supported? I see on the tutorial there's so

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-17 Thread calcpage
>> I think this counts as a "success story". I've used Sage in two classes now: Honors Calc I, and MAT 305, a class our department calls "Mathematical Computing", where we basically teach majors who have completed the Calculus sequence some programming. In the past we used Maple. The class was or

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread calcpage
Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a SAGE notebook! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College --~--~-~--~~~-

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 4.2 Lightweight LiveCD is ready to download.

2009-10-29 Thread CalcPage
Lucio, I seem to recall an older version of the Sage CD that was a little difficult to use. I just recently tried out the 4.1.1 CD and find it very responsive. I like the simple interface and the fact that can always fire up Firefox and use _http://www.sagenb.org_ (http://www.sagenb.org)

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 4.2 Lightweight LiveCD is ready to download.

2009-10-29 Thread CalcPage
Wow, I just burned 25 copies of 4.1.1 to give out at a conference I'm presenting on tuesday HTH, A. Jorge Garcia _http://calcpage.tripod.com_ (http://calcpage.tripod.com/) Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community

[sage-edu] Re: SageIDE as an education-oriented GUI for Sage

2009-10-23 Thread calcpage
Speaking of grad student contibution to Sage, I thinl dSage is one such contribution. I'm wondering if dSage is still supported for doing distributed computing problems with Sage over a cluster. My independent study computer science students would love to use dSage! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http

[sage-edu] Re: sigma

2009-09-26 Thread calcpage
Using technology in the mathematics classroom - such as Sage - to bring about the elusive "a ha" moment is truly a thing of beauty! Congrats! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau

[sage-edu] Calculus Research Lab

2009-09-23 Thread CalcPage
Well, it looks like I may get the Calculus Lab using Sage, complementing my AP Calculus BC class, in the Spring semester as an every day class as opposed to a Lab every other day starting now as originally planned. Also, you may be interested in the fact that my topic for presentations at c

[sage-edu] Re: integer, tostring, length?

2009-09-21 Thread calcpage
Yes, yes, of course! But I was just thinking of it as the langth of a string Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-edu] Re: integer, tostring, length?

2009-09-19 Thread calcpage
Yes, that was it! Thank you! How easy it is to forget syntax in one environment when using another. I was teaching java all day yesterday and I just couldn't remember the equivalent in Sage! BTW, I had worksheets in sagenb online where I saved a lot of 'notes to self' whenever I figured out

[sage-edu] integer, tostring, length?

2009-09-19 Thread calcpage
Sorry, silly question: OK, I know I've done this in Sage before, but I can't remember for the life of me how. I'm writing a program that computes large integers and tests for primality. What I'd like to do is print out the integer and how many digits it has. I seem to remember having to con

[sage-edu] Re: Calculus Research Lab (CRL) in High School

2009-09-09 Thread CalcPage
BTW, I have a blog about teaching and learning mathematics with technology. If any of you are interested, please visit my website: _http://calcpage.tripod.com_ (http://calcpage.tripod.com) where you will find a link to my weblog near the top of my home page. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia _http://

[sage-edu] Re: Calculus Research Lab (CRL) in High School

2009-09-09 Thread CalcPage
You got it! At least part of the problem is the union. The main problem is a disorganized administration HTH, A. Jorge Garcia _http://calcpage.tripod.com_ (http://calcpage.tripod.com/) Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Na

[sage-edu] Calculus Research Lab (CRL) in High School

2009-09-08 Thread CalcPage
Just an update: I may not have this lab after all! My new course proposal for CRL, based on Sage and Calculus texts that use Sage as listed on _http://www.sagemath.org_ (http://www.sagemath.org) , was approved and funded. However, CRL was approved too late last year to fit into the stude

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-20 Thread calcpage
Well, funny you should ask for pictures! I was teaching Harvard Calulus II (text by Deborah Hughes-Hallett) at the local college this past July. Since I had been working a lot with PC Tablets and PC Projectors all year to give my lessons at my High School, the college let me use their new lec

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-20 Thread CalcPage
Oh, OK, that sounds like fun! I'll let you know when we're ready. We don't start classes until after Labor Day. What kind of picture do you want? A picture of the computer lab with the kids using Sage perhaps? HTH, A. Jorge Garcia _http://calcpage.tripod.com_ (http://calcpage.tripod.com

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-20 Thread calcpage
Well its a lab, so we will use Sage every other day! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -Original Message- From: calcp...@aol.com To: sage-edu@googlegr

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-19 Thread calcpage
I already took the plunge! I am running a new calculus lab for my AP Calculus BC students next year where they will be using Sage every day! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Co

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest

2009-04-14 Thread CalcPage
In a message dated 4/14/2009 1:41:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jason-s...@creativetrax.com writes: I'm going and plan to submit a talk for this session in the next few days talking about using interacts in calc 2, 3, differential equations, and linear algebra. It should be a great s

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-27 Thread CalcPage
In a message dated 1/27/2009 2:38:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, wst...@gmail.com writes: This discussion should be on sage-nt, the list for sage number theory discussion: Oh, I did not know of this list! How do I get a list of all sage forums? I only know of sage-edu, sage-support

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-23 Thread CalcPage
In a message dated 1/23/2009 9:12:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, wst...@gmail.com writes: That is not the point of lucas-lehmer. The point is to determine whether or not 2^p - 1 is a prime number more quickly than ... say checking for divisibility by primes up to sqrt(2^p - 1). OK, I s

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