[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-15 Thread mhampton
I'm not sure its what you mean, but Sage can already change the size of Jmol applets if the graphics object (call it G) is wrapped with show(G, figsize = [3,3]) for example. -Marshall On Nov 13, 8:04 am, Jonathan wrote: > Some things related to this. > > 1) The Jmol application already has the

[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:22 AM, mhampton wrote: > > I'm not sure its what you mean, but Sage can already change the size > of Jmol applets if the graphics  object (call it G) is wrapped with > show(G, figsize = [3,3]) for example. Making the resizing dynamic using a div and jquery control is ac

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

2009-11-15 Thread Colin Macdonald
Hi, I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lower years. Also, any advice in convincing one's peers and institution that Sage is an appropriate path to take? In particular, in switching away from a proprietary produc

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

2009-11-15 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Colin Macdonald wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in > their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lower years. Some info is here: http://www.sagemath.org/library-books.html http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_

[sage-edu] MAA panel session on "Free and low-cost software and textbooks for the classroom"

2009-11-15 Thread David Joyner
Hello sage-edu-ers: Jason Martin http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/, Lon Mitchell http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lmitchell2/, and I sat in on a panel session on the above topic yesterday morning. It was part of the Section NExT Session held in the Fall 2009 MAA sectional meeting at Goucher College htt

[sage-edu] Re: MAA panel session on "Free and low-cost software and textbooks for the classroom"

2009-11-15 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi David, Thanks for the report. Lon Mitchell and Craig Larson have gathered up several good open-source textbooks and made hardback copies available on Amazon.com as part of the "Virginia Commonwealth Mathematics" series. But I haven't ever been able to find a good online listing of just which

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

2009-11-15 Thread Rob Beezer
I've found Sage a great complement to my abstract algebra course. Based on last fall's course (2008) I created a primer of Sage commands useful for learning group theory. http://abstract.ups.edu/sage-aata.html I'll likely update it after this fall's course ends and then expand it this spring whe