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

2010-07-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Wow, we call this a root or a radical over here in the States! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College -- You received th

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

2010-07-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:06:38 -0400, Calcpage wrote: > One silly question, what the heck is a "surd?" http://lmgtfy.com/?q=surd -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

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.

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

2010-07-16 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Phillip, On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Phillip Feldman wrote: > Hello Minh, I have put together an outline of a tutorial book. The goal of this tutorial is to present high school mathematics accompanied by numerous examples on how to use Sage to study the said mathematics. The full outline