Teaching with SageMath - a German Higher Education Perspective

Ingo Dahn (VCRP)

03-Jun-2022, 11:00-12:00 (22 months ago)

Abstract: SageMath - and similar systems - are currently used for teaching at German universities just by a few pioneers. The talk explains the particular reasons for this situation and analyzes, which properties of the SageMath ecosystem, with SageMath, SageCell, CoCalc and Docker-CoCalc, facilitate a further uptake. The Virtual Campus of the German Land Rhineland-Palatine (VCRP) is determined to support the use of the potential of digital media for the improvement of teaching and learning at the public universities of the land. In particular, some SageMath-based services are provided to support the work of the aforementioned pioneers, to learn from their experiences and to lower the barriers for other staff members for realizing SageMath’s potential for innovative STEM teaching. These services, some of which are available as Open Educational Resources, will be described in the talk. Finally, some improvements for SageMath are suggested that would further ease its use for teaching.

mathematical softwaresymbolic computationMathematics

Audience: general audience

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Global Virtual SageDays 112.358

Organizers: Matthias Köppe*, Jean-Philippe Labbé*, Yuan Zhou*
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