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

• Nathan Carter (Bentley)

• Karl-Dieter Crisman (Gordon)

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 ([email protected]) 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)

• Semra Kılıç-Bahi (Colby-Sawyer College)
• Andrew Cahoon (Colby-Sawyer 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 PDF)