[sage-edu] An elementary Sage frontend for secondary school

2009-11-02 Thread Vincent D
Hello, At the occasion of a week on "interaction between math and computing science" in Marseille (February 2010) we aim to develop an enhanced interface to Sage for a usage in secondary school. The rules we use are approximately the following: * avoid the oriented object syntax. "Important" m

[sage-edu] Sage education day 2

2009-11-28 Thread Vincent D
Hello, In February we will have the Sage days 20. The wednesday will concern essentially Sage in education. Could we consider it as Sage education day 2 ? I will be enlighted on any comment from the organizers of the Sage days 1 (before and after). Vincent -- You received this message because

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

2009-12-10 Thread Vincent D
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] french discussion group and wiki

2010-03-03 Thread Vincent D
Hi, During the SAGE-education day which appends last week at SAGE days 20, we decided to start a discussion group in the french language. Mainly to support teachers in installing and using SAGE. Anyone who like read and write french is cordially invited to use also this list to promote the SAGE so

[sage-edu] Re: french discussion group and wiki

2010-03-09 Thread Vincent D
Hello Robert, > good news. Since I do not speak french, I wonder, if you suppose to > continue to work on http://wiki.sagemath.org/HighSchoolDesign? I hope. This task it's not a hard job. The principal aim of this HighSchoolDesign is to reduce the namespace of Sage. As this can not be the default