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

> > Some may say I should persevere until the students "snap out" of their > old passive way of doing things.  If I was sure this was the silver > bullet of math teaching, I would be confident enough to fight this > battle. I'm not sure this is the holy grail yet. > > This is certainly pedagogica

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

> The Scratch project at MIT > (http://scratch.mit.edu/) is also an excellent way to think about > programming in a different way, though I don't know how usable it > would be for a math class. Incidentally, as an idea for future Sage Ed Days concept... check out http://day.scratch.mit.edu/ In 2

[sage-edu] Restricting the field used when solving equations.

I am a high school teacher in Turtleford, SK Canada and am thinking about using sage in some of my teaching. The one problem I have right now is all of the complex roots found when solving an equation. Is there a way to restrict the returned solutions to the Reals? -- You received this message be

Re: [sage-edu] Restricting the field used when solving equations.

jason.t.stein wrote: > I am a high school teacher in Turtleford, SK Canada and am thinking > about using sage in some of my teaching. The one problem I have right > now is all of the complex roots found when solving an equation. Is > there a way to restrict the returned solutions to the Reals? >

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

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:11 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> >> Some may say I should persevere until the students "snap out" of their >> old passive way of doing things.  If I was sure this was the silver >> bullet of math teaching, I would be confident enough to fight this >> battle. I'm not sure this

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

On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:44 PM, michel paul wrote: > > Sound familiar to anyone? > > Absolutely! Yeah, the average HS student just wants to be told what > to do. So this has been very tricky - how to get the kids to use > something like Sage/Python as a way to explore ideas on their own > whe

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

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:44 PM, michel paul wrote: > >> > Sound familiar to anyone? >> >> Absolutely!  Yeah, the average HS student just wants to be told what >> to do.  So this has been very tricky - how to get the kids to use >> something l

[sage-edu] Re: Restricting the field used when solving equations.

I prefer Polynomials than symbolic expression : sage: R. = PolynomialRing(QQ, 'x') sage: P = (x^2 + 1) * (x^2 - x - 1) sage: P.roots() # no root in QQ [] sage: P.roots(RR) # two roots in RR [(-0.618033988749895, 1), (1.61803398874989, 1)] sage: P.roots(CC) # four roots in CC [(-0.61803398874989

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

On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, William Stein wrote: > Do you have a list of things those students do like? I don't have any specific things about Sage I've heard yet. cs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to

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

On Dec 10, 9:11 am, kcrisman wrote: > you might want to make the transition to the > typing a little more gradually - perhaps using Sage @interacts that > are completely click or drag, then ones where you have to type in > numbers, I think this is sage advice (pun intended). Starting with @int