Sage Education Day 1
The first Sage Education Day is being held with the generous cooperation of the organizers of Sage Days 18.
Topics
- Intro to using Sage for math in the classroom
- Using Sage in specific courses (multivariable calculus and group theory - tentative)
Intro to the Lurch math proof software project
- Sage implementation in the classroom - logistics and more
- Roundtable discussions on general math software, and on math and word processing - for both, what works and what doesn't
See below for the official schedule.
Logistics
- Date and Location: December 5, 2009 at the Clay Mathematics Institute (Cambridge, MA), from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM, with a lunch break from 12:30-1:30.
Driving directions can be found at the Official Clay Mathematics Institute Visitors Page. Parking meters of the coin-operated (quarters only) and "pay and display" varieties (which accept credit cards) run 8 AM-6 PM on Saturday, and most in Harvard Square are limited to 2 hours. For off-street parking, see this map; bring receipts to Kiran for parking reimbursement.
Public transit is an excellent alternative to driving; CMI is a 5-minute walk from the Harvard Square T station. For complete directions, see the CMI Visitors Page. (Harvard is on the Red Line; a nearby station with plenty of parking is Alewife.)
- We strongly encourage you to bring your laptop to try things out! Wifi will be available.
Registration and light refreshments start at 9:00 AM. Lunch is on your own, but we will probably go in groups to continue the discussion.
Mailing Lists
The list for this event is here.
There is also a list specifically for discussing education issues in Sage.
You may also find the general Sage support list helpful.
Organizers
Registration
There are several ways to register.
- Send an email to one of the organizers (addresses available on their home pages below),
- Put your name on the list below of confirmed participants, or
- Just show up!
CMI would also like all participants to register with them. This can be done when you arrive, but it will save a bit of time to email Amanda Battese (battese@claymath.org) with your name, email address, and institutional affilation.
Confirmed Participants
Karl-Dieter Crisman (Gordon)
Nathan Carter (Bentley)
- Jason Grout (Drake)
- Rob Beezer (Puget Sound)
- William Stein (University of Washington)
Kiran Kedlaya (MIT)
Dana Ernst (Plymouth State University)
- Robert Bradshaw (University of Washington)
- Ken Levasseur (UMass Lowell)
- Peter Ash
- Desmond Sheeran
- Eric Pite
- Steve Benson (Lesley University)
- David Dorman (Middlebury College)
- Doug Kuhlmann (Phillips Academy)
- Shawn Robinson (U. Maine, Presque Isle)
- Brandy Benedict (Merrimack)
- Juliana Belding (Harvard)
Lynne C DeSantis (Hesser College)
Andrew McHugh (Mitchell College)
Official Schedule
We will mostly follow the official schedule, but it has some built-in flexibility to accommodate workshop participant interest. Here we include a little extra detail on the sessions, beyond what is available on the official website.
- 9:00am - 9:30am: Registration
- 9:30am - 9:45am: Introductions and announcements
- 9:45am - 10:30am: Using Sage in the classroom; an introduction (Karl-Dieter Crisman)
- 10:30am - 11:00am: Roundtable discussion - math software capabilities: what is in Sage, what should be in Sage (William Stein, Karl-Dieter Crisman, everyone!)
- 11:00am - 11:10am: Break
- 11:10am - 11:30am: Introduction to Lurch and Lurch Lite (Nathan Carter)
- 11:30am - 11:50am: Roundtable discussion - math and word processing: what works, what doesn't, and the state of Lurch and Sage (Jason Grout, Nathan Carter, everyone!)
- 11:50am - 12:20pm: Sage for newbies: logistics, browsers, portability, documentation, etc. (TBD)
- 12:20pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm: Undergraduate teaching with Sage in specific courses: tentatively multivariable calculus (Jason Grout) and group theory (Rob Beezer)