Session Schedule: MAA PREP Workshop

Each day is a total of four hours online, broken into two 2-hour sessions. Please get set up in Elluminate a few minutes before the start time, paying special attention to the guidelines (especially about your session name and headphones). We will post links to recordings of each session to the course email list shortly after the conclusion of the session.

• Session I: 8-10 Pacific, 11-1 Eastern
• Session II: Noon-2 Pacific, 3-5 Eastern

Current Homework

• Homework, Calculus Tutorial

Office Hours

Please connect as usual in Elluminate, and give the organizer a minute or two to recognize you if there is nobody else around, or they are busy with someone else. ("Raising your hand" should provide an audible alert on the organizer's end.) See the guide for information on sharing your worksheet out via Elluminate. This might be a useful way for us to help you with problems.

And of course feel free to ask any questions on the MAA list for the workshop, or support question on [email protected]

Tuesday, June 8

For these next two days you should notice more discussion about how you might employ Sage as part of your teaching. We will also continue to describe how to use Sage itself, including discussions about programming and building interacts.

Notice the "participant choice" session for Wednesday afternoon, so start thinking about that.

Session I

• Welcome back (Rob, 10 min)

• Single-Variable Calculus Worksheet, Calculus Tutorial (Karl-Dieter, 30 min)

• Break (10 min)
• Advanced plotting (Jason, 30 min)
• Break (10 min)
• Introductory Programming (Rob, 30 min)
  • Motivated by a calc topic
    • newton's method
    • discern patterns
    • limits experiment numerically
  • Set Notation, List Comprehension
  • "dot" method notation
  • Regular "def" functions
  • Loops and behavior/use of "range"
  • Copies vs Reference
  • N, e, I, lambda_

Session II - Classroom Demos

• Chaos and Calculus (Karl-Dieter, 10 min)

• Approximation Polynomials (Rob, 10 min)
• Linear Algebra (Jason, 20 min)
• Break (10 min)
• Numerical Analysis (Jason, 10 min)
• Multivariate Demos (Rob, Jason, 30 min)
• Discussion of classroom use
• Wrap-up, "participant choice" decision for Wednesday.

Wednesday, June 9

Session I - Quickstarts

• Topical Lightning Round (Questions between each topic, each topic < 10 min)

  • Linear Algebra (Jason)
  • Graph Theory / Discrete (Rob)
  • Number Theory / Crypto (Karl-Dieter)
  • Abstract Algebra (Rob)
  • Break
  • Differential Equations (Karl-Dieter)
  • Numerical Analysis (Jason)
  • Statistics / distributions (Karl-Dieter)
  • Multivariable calculus (Rob)

Session II -

• Group discussion on designing classroom use (Karl-Dieter, 30 min)
• Interacts (Jason, 20 min)
  • How to make
  • Helpful resources
  • Control types
  • Layout
• Break (10 min)
• Participant choice (multivariable calculus?)
• Advanced Programming (Rob and Jason, 30 min)
  • Coset maker, subgroup maker
  • Pre-parser
  • More ranges, [1:3] notation, etc.
  • Integers
  • lambda function
  • fast_callable
  • Cython

Monday, August 9

Session I -

• Sage History (William Stein)

• Setting Up a Server

Session II -

• Participant Demos (Voluntary)

Archived: Saturday, May 22

Our goal on the first day is to get everybody comfortable enough in the notebook interface that they can begin to productively explore their own interests in Sage independently. So we will concentrate on basic use and the various ways to get help and learn more.

Questions are encouraged! With that in mind, note that we have ample time for addressing questions that come up during the presentations. You should feel free to message in Elluminate anything that comes to mind, and we'll be sure to address as many as possible during the actual session.

Session I - Getting Started

• Introductions: Organizers and Participants (Rob, 30 min)
• Review (and expand on) "PREP Intro Tutorial" worksheet (Karl, 45 min)
  • Evaluating commands
  • Symbolic functions
  • Finding Help and Documentation through the notebook
  • Annotating your Worksheets
• Short Break
• Questions (Rob, 25 min)
• Looking to the Outcomes (Jason, 20 min)
  • Making Your Own Worksheets
  • Demonstration of Interacts

Session II - Sage Community

• Welcome Back (5 minutes, Rob)
• Resources (45 minutes, Jason)
  • Google Groups
    • sage-support
    • sage-edu
    • sage-devel
  • MAA list (versus Google Groups)
  • Sage wiki (Interacts, Quickrefs)
  • www.sagemath.org
  • www.sagenb.org published worksheets
  • Reference manual (stand-alone PDF, HTML)
  • IRC Demo, with the web chat client
  • Questions
• Questions (Rob, 10 min)
• Short Break
• Review (and expand on) "Sage Tutorial for Symbolics and Plotting" (Karl, 30 min)
  • Symbolic Expressions
  • Basics of Two-Dimensional Plotting
  • Basics of Three-Dimensional Plotting
• Questions (Rob, 15 min)
• Homework (Rob, 10 min)
  • Preparation for next sessions
  • Pre-Workshop Survey for MAA
• Announcements (Rob, 5 min)
  • Office Hours
  • June Sessions

Session Links

• Sage Reference (standalone)

• Sage Tutorial (standalone)

• Sage Quick Reference (Wiki)

• Sage Interacts (Wiki)

• Interact Construction Documentation

• John Perry's Mathematical Computing Course

• Beezer's TeX Resources (bottom half of "Links"

• William Stein's Sage/Mathematical History

• Beezer's Sage Exercises Groups Rings & Fields

• Dana Ernst's Algebraic Structures Course

• Sage's Python to C translator

• A Sage Live CD (there are others?)