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
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.
Date |
Time (PDT) |
Time (EDT) |
Organizer |
Tue, 25 May |
8:30A-10:30A |
11:30A-1:30P |
Jason Grout |
Thu, 27 May |
7:00P-8:00P |
10:00P-11:00P |
Karl-Dieter Crisman |
Tue, 1 Jun |
9:30A-11:30A |
12:30P-2:30P |
Rob Beezer |
Thu, 3 Jun |
7:00P-8:00P |
10:00P-11:00P |
Karl-Dieter Crisman |
And of course feel free to ask any questions on the MAA list for the workshop, or support question on sage-support@googlegroups.com
Tuesday, June 8
Session I
- Other specific mathematical topics
- Introductory Programming
- Motivated by a calc topic
- newton's method
- discern patterns
- limits experiment numerically
- Set Notation, List Comprehension
- "dot" method notation
- Regular "def" functions
- Loops
- Copies vs Reference
- N, e, I, lambda_
- Motivated by a calc topic
Session II - Classroom Demos
- Calc I topics (Karl)
- Approximation Polynomials (Rob)
- Linear Algebra, Interactive (Jason)
- Numerical Analysis (Jason)
- Multivariate Demos (Jason, Rob)
Wednesday, June 9
Session I -
- Advanced Programming
- Coset maker, subgroup maker (Rob)
- Pre-parser
- Integers
- lambda function
Session II -
- Interacts (Control Types)
Monday, August 9
Session I -
- Sage History (William Stein)
Session II -
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
- Google Groups
- 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
Beezer's Sage Exercises Groups Rings & Fields