Re: Hoffman update and question

[David Joyner]

I can only think of the Sage interacts, available on the Sage wiki
http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/calculus
I posted a few downloadable worksheets here
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/
but they are unorganized and it's hard to tell what they are about
without downloading them and running them.

I'll ask the folks at sage-edu and send you their response.

Does anyone on this list know of a good place for Prof Hoffman's
calculus students
to download some Sage demos?
Maybe there are some published worksheets somewhere that would be useful?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Dale Hoffman
<dhof...@bellevuecollege.edu> wrote:
> Dear David,
>
>

...

> The Gates Foundation gave the Washington State Colleges a grant to create
> free class materials & texts for the 81 highest enrolled courses in the
> 2-year college system, and those included Calculus I, II and III.  I applied
> to do all 3 thinking I would probably get one – I got all three.  So I’ve
> been working to create whole courses (syllabi, outcomes, practice quizzes
> and tests, ...) as well as updating my text materials.  The biggest change
> for the text is that I redrew all of the figures (>2000) in color.  I don’t
> know if that has any effect on students learning calculus but the
> presentation is much more inviting and friendly.  All of this is registered
> with the Creative Commons as “free to use/modify” with attribution.
>
>
>
> The point of this email is twofold.
>
>
>
> (1)  All of my materials are now available (in color) if you want to use
> them in any way.  The class web page for each course (151/152/153) has the
> text and lots of others “stuff” (syllabus, old quizzes and tests, handouts,
> access to practice problems on WAMAP, ...).  Those web pages are at:
>
>     http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/dh/math151/math151.html
>
>     http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/dh/math152OCL/math152OCL.html
>
>     http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/dh/math153/math153.html
>
> And the text by itself is at
>
>     http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/dh/Calculus_all/Calculus_all.html
>
> Each section also exists as a WORD document, and each figure exists as an
> individual JPEG file.  If you want I can send you a CD with those versions –
> the web stuff is all PDF.
>
>
>
> (2)  I’m teaching two sections of Calculus I this fall (starting Sept. 19),
> and I’m looking for demonstrations that students can download and interact
> with (at least in some limited fashion).  Is there a repository or library
> of such things in SAGE (or anything else)?  Typically these students are not
> very sophisticated so I’m looking for items that are easy to download and
> use.  Can you suggest something?
>
>
>

...

>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
> Dale
>
>
>
>

[kcrisman]

On Aug 30, 12:15 pm, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can only think of the Sage interacts, available on the Sage wikihttp://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/calculus
> I posted a few downloadable worksheets herehttp://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/

> but they are unorganized and it's hard to tell what they are about
> without downloading them and running them.
>
> I'll ask the folks at sage-edu and send you their response.
>
> Does anyone on this list know of a good place for Prof Hoffman's
> calculus students
> to download some Sage demos?
> Maybe there are some published worksheets somewhere that would be useful?

Well, John Perry's worksheets are a great place to start.

http://www.math.usm.edu/sage/

[Jason Grout]

On 8/30/11 11:15 AM, David Joyner wrote:
> (2) I�m teaching two sections of Calculus I this fall (starting Sept. 19),
>> and I�m looking for demonstrations that students can download and interact

>> with (at least in some limited fashion). Is there a repository or library
>> of such things in SAGE (or anything else)? Typically these students are not

>> very sophisticated so I�m looking for items that are easy to download and

>> use. Can you suggest something?

I'm also teaching two sections of Calc 1, and am preparing short
demonstrations as I teach. Here is my first one, which is what we did
the first day of class to introduce the idea of a limit and review
things like how to write the equation of a tangent line:

http://sage.cs.drake.edu/home/pub/81/

Let's stay in touch. It sounds like your goals and the goals of UTMOST
align quite nicely.

Thanks,

Jason

[1] http://utmost.aimath.org/

[dimpase]

I can modestly supply the URL:

http://web.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~dima/MTH213/

where we are putting our worksheets for this course we are currently teaching

(which is not calculus, but it will include some calculus material)

Dima

[Rado]

Nice use of JSXGraph. Any plans to integrate it better with Sage?

[Rob Beezer]

On Aug 31, 12:51 pm, Rado <rki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice use of JSXGraph. Any plans to integrate it better with Sage?

Yes, very nice. But I found it a bit buggy. When I zoomed-in and
panned some, the actual location of the point of interest seemed to
change.

Jason - I'm following your course. I'm teaching Calc I also.

Rob

[Jason Grout]

On 8/31/11 2:51 PM, Rado wrote:
> Nice use of JSXGraph. Any plans to integrate it better with Sage?

At this point, I'm just trying to get a feel for jsxgraph and how to
work with it. In the back of my mind, I'm thinking about how to get it
to work nicely with Sage. Jquery sliders can control values in jsxgraph
too, so there are possibilities for interacts that contain (and control)
jsxgraph instances. Also, jsxgraph may provide a nice way to get 2d
clickable graphs (i.e., jsxgraph would give an input into an interact).
But I don't understand enough about jsxgraph yet, which is why I'm
experimenting with it.

I'm also thinking about some of the stuff that Michael Droettboom was
experimenting with during the Sage Days in March dealing with
interactive (over the web) SVG backends to matplotlib graphics.

I also used jsxgraph here:

http://sage.cs.drake.edu/home/pub/79/

Thanks,

Jason