[sage-edu] There is any way to be part of this community without being forced to have a google account

2008-10-08 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi All, Congrats for Sage and this mailing list. I'm using Sage + TeXmacs + Connexions projects with my students to teach linear algebra and differential calculus. I have made a Virtual version of Linux which runs on Windows using Virtual Box and Puppy Linux, instead of VMware and Debian as y

[sage-edu] Re: A problem solving an exercise of vectors

2008-10-08 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Daniel, DJDANG escribió: > Hello everyone, > I'm sure someone can help me to solve this problem I'm having right > now. It's about vectors and it's really easy when you do it on paper > but it becomes a little tricky when you try to solve it in sage. > > This is the problem: > Let be u=(1,2),

[sage-edu] Re: There is any way to be part of this community without being forced to have a google account

2008-10-08 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, David Joyner escribió: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Congrats for Sage and this mailing list. I'm using Sage + TeXmacs + >> Connexions projects with my students

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-04 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, mhampton escribió: > I've been working on a mathematical coloring book, with the pictures > created using Sage. It still needs some work but I've put a > preliminary version up at lulu.com: > > http://www.lulu.com/content/4858716 > > I am not making any money on it, the cost is what lulu.com

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Windows

2009-01-29 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, David Joyner escribió: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Alec Mihailovs wrote: >> >>> Another alternative, for using Sage in class, instead of using a >>> (non-existing) native Windows port, or one of the virtualizations,

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-01-29 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, I'm pretty interested in your work. I'm thinking in something like this but using TeXmacs + Sage instead of LaTeX + Sage. Could you please share your code with us? Thanks a lot, Offray Rob Beezer escribió: > I've been working on the conversion of LaTeX documents, which include > Sage

[sage-edu] Re: Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-14 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I made an "Elementary Number Theory" quickref, which I've posted here: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref > > william > > Very nice!. I have being made something in the same spirit for my students of Linear Algebra: http://algebralineal.tiddlyspot.com

[sage-edu] Re: Linear Algebra QuickRef

2009-05-09 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer wrote: > I've put together a quick reference sheet (two pages) for linear > algebra commands in Sage. I'll do a bit more clean-up on this before > posting a final copy on the wiki in a couple days, so I know there is > a bit more work to do. Specifically, I might reorder the

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-06-04 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, Bernie wrote: > Hi everybody! lucio was my student at Universidad Catolica in Uruguay. > I think the URL is: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/luciolastra/sagelwlcd/latest/ > If it is the dist I watched from him, is really good. His work is very > good and as kcrisman said, it can

[sage-edu] Re: interactive visualizing cross-sections of solids ?

2009-06-04 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, Talking about Jmol. It seems broken on Arch Linux (only black squares where the graphics should be shown). May be this is a support question instead of an education one, but trying to subscribe from non-google accounts to google groups is a pain in the ... So any pointer to documentat

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-06-05 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer wrote: >> The idea was to provide the students with a easy to use personal >> scientific computing environment to carry on. >> > > I will likely run a seminar this fall for my students to introduce > them to Sage, TeX, Beamer and friends (and maybe some Linux, plus some

[sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-13 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, [...] David Joyner wrote: > I think Mike Hansen is working on it > in the Sage notebook. I think it is implemented in codenode > http://www.codenode.org/ but codenode does not (yet)play nice with > Sage. If I had to guess, I would guess that both of these should happen > before the end of th

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, I tried a complementary approach to Rob's one using PlasTeX[1] (tex4ht complains a lot about LaTeX files exported by TeXmacs and PlasTeX is more pythonic that tex4ht because... well is made on python :-P). The final idea is to have something that takes TeXmacs[2] documents and convert

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer escribió: > Hi Offray, > > Those are very interesting experiments. Thanks for posting them. For > further comparison, I've taken your two examples and run them through > my process. Here are some observations based on that, with the > disclaimer that TeXmacs is new to me. >

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-25 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer escribió: > Hi Offray, > > Thanks for the reply. I think we pretty much in agreement on most all > of this. > Thanks for your quick answer and, help and concern about this inquires. That makes very nice to be part in a so newbie friendly community as Sage. It seems that

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-07-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, kcrisman escribió: > Hi, sorry to resurrect this thread, but I finally have an Intel-based > computer. What exact steps would I need to follow to try this out > using Parallels on Mac OSX.5? Please keep in mind I have very little > experience with virtual machines, and know nothing about Li

[sage-edu] Black body graph is sage with interact

2009-07-29 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Two students are interested in making the graph of the black body[1][2] with Sage and making it interactive in the web. [2] contains, at the end, an excel file which has a table of the proper values and an interactive graphic of the black body as a function of temperature, t, and when t i

[sage-edu] Re: Educational Game - LightOut

2009-08-04 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, David Joyner escribió: > Thanks for the link! Works in epiphany on an amd64 ubuntu machine. > Thanks also. Works on Firefox on an arch linux over intel centrino. This could be a project for an interested student. Cheers, Offray --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

[sage-edu] Re: Publishing Interact files in Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, dracero wrote: > I was trying to publish an interact file in winows. The SAGE notebook > looks ok and there is no problem with JSMATH. But trying to see the > published file I get an error message saying: "error 7, problem > setting up JSMATH". > I´m using the last versión of Mozilla Firefox

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Primers

2009-08-28 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, Thanks a lot for this initiative. Would be nice to have pdf versions of the Sage Worksheets for easy reading and encouraging of newbies to test sage interactively. Cheers, Offray ErikJacobson wrote: > Sage documentation and the tutorial are written for and by research > mathematician

[sage-edu] Re: Using Sage to replace lectures altogether....

2009-10-20 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Rob Beezer escribió: [...] > In 1992 I taught integral calculus to a small group of first-term > freshman using the Calculus & Mathematica materials. We met one day a > week in a classroom and then three days a week in a lab setting. I > had an undergraduate TA to help with lab sessions.

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

2009-10-21 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Ted Kosan escribió: > A couple of years ago when I was active in the Sage project, I began > work on an education-oriented GUI for Sage which I called SageIDE. > SageIDE (which I renamed MathRider) has now reached the point where it > is capable of being interfaced to Sage and my thought is t

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

2009-10-21 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Thanks for your answers. I think also that starting simple and small is a way to increase the use of Sage also. My questions about interface and language because I'm trying to use CAS in education with notebooks with a textual oriented interface instead of notebooks with a calculation ori

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

2009-10-23 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Being this a list on Sage and education I will keep the discussion here because ideas on interface could be useful for sage in particular and for education problems and CAS in general. If it becomes too much general or Sage unrelated and this is not the place for it, please tell me. Ted K

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

2009-10-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, kcrisman escribió: [...] > Just to comment on this, I would say that many of the people who use > Sage for research are also very committed to making it better for > education. William in particular has put in many, many hours > improving things that almost certainly do not make computing L

Re: [sage-edu] First Sage Education Day!

2009-12-19 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi kcrisman, kcrisman wrote: > We now have a Wiki page (http://wiki.sagemath.org/education1) for the > first ever Sage Education Day! I've taken the liberty to add the four > people who have personally told me they will be in the room for this > (which includes the two organizers), but feel free

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

2009-12-19 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, michel paul wrote: > I can't claim it's effective, but so far this is what I'm doing - [...] Thanks for sharing your practices integrating Sage and maths education. Briefly what I have done this semester with freshmen students in Linear Algebra at university was: * Use my touch screen l

Re: [sage-edu] NSF education grant proposal

2009-12-27 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer escribió: > A small group has been working on an education-related grant proposal to the > US > National Science Foundation to support work making it easier to use Sage in > undergraduate courses. The description of the CCLI Type 2 program is at: > > http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/

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

2009-12-27 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, michel paul escribió: [...] > But creating a suite of simple functions like that would be easy > enough but also challenging enough for most of them, plus these > functions could then easily be configured with @interact. > > Another example of what I'm trying to get at with this 'functional

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

2009-12-31 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, David Joyner escribió: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM, john_perry_usm wrote: > ... > > >> Two different ones: >> >> Honors Calc at http://www.math.usm.edu/sage/ >> (mostly calc I, and some of the lecture notes on this webpage have >> embarassingly wrong typos which I haven't yet fixed

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

2010-01-25 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 19/12/09 14:24, calcp...@aol.com wrote: For instance, instead of Smart Notebook to write notes with my tablet's pen I use Xournal (windows and linux) both of which export to pdf. Also, instead of Smart Recorder to make desktop recordings of my class complete with sound, I use http://scr

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

2010-01-25 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 19/12/09 10:20, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: * Installing the cyn.in software _also_ inside the university's severs (at this moment it is in a local free software community server). * Prototyping low cost touch boards wit

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

2010-01-26 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 01/01/10 16:34, calcp...@aol.com wrote: [...] -Original Message- From: michel paul To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 3:26 pm Subject: [sage-edu] Re: what should be taught? [...] There seems to be lots of agreement about the importance of writing in math.

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE live CD? - Puppy Linux Live CD prototype

2010-02-04 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 03/02/10 11:20, emil wrote: I downloaded the current Live CD a week ago. It is based on Ubuntu. Sage runs perfect, but functionality beside this is limited. I recently compiled Sage for Puppy Linux. This is a very small but very complete Linux Distribution. It has Office Applications, We

Re: [sage-edu] Re: SAGE live CD? - Puppy Linux Live CD prototype

2010-02-05 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 04/02/10 10:28, emil wrote: [...] The 2 Options are: a) Sage with Latex and Lyx b) Sage without Latex, but Java + Mathpiper (have to test it first) Maybe someone has an oppinion about that? It seems that maybe on University it would be nice if people get acquainted with Latex, in Highsc

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Calculus and Sage

2010-02-15 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
On 15/02/10 14:21, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:40 AM, kcrisman wrote: Although I personally enjoy the *good* examples; honestly, I think it would be irresponsible to ask someone taking calculus as a pre- physical-therapy student (which ours are required to, for good biomechanic