Hi all,<br><br>I'm studying Mathematics too and using the Sage backend; indeed Cantor is a wonderful tool.<br><br>
<span class="gI"><span name="Alexander Rieder" class="gD">Alexander Rieder worte:</span></span><br>
>this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better opportunity to<br>
>gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on making<br>
>Cantor a better tool for teaching.<br>
<br>I've always thought that Cantor's backend system can allow us to
offer different levels of features to the users (mostly students):
Backends like Sage and scilab for advanced maths and work in the
KAlgebra (analitza) backend for non-advanced maths. Its just an idea for
the future. Also, improve Cantor with use cases for teachers would be
awesome!<br><br>
<span tabindex="0" class="e" id=":192" title="Marcelo Pires">Marcelo Pires</span> wrote:<br>>I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and <br>
>Free
Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching <br>
>basic math to
higher mathematics.<br><br>It's a very interesting topic for a thesis project, I hope the pappers of David Tall can help you:<br><br><a href="http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/downloads.html">http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/downloads.html</a><br>
<br>specially:<br><br><a href="http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/pdfs/dot1987e-graphic-packages.pdf">http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/pdfs/dot1987e-graphic-packages.pdf</a><br><br>helped me a lot when I was doing my thesis too.<br>
<br>Best regards,<br>Percy<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Alexander Rieder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexanderrieder@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexanderrieder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wednesday 08 August 2012 10:13:20 Melissa Mendonça wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> This might be the time for me to jump into the conversation. I'm here<br>
> because Tomaz basically forced me to join (lol), I'm a professor at<br>
> the Mathematics Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina<br>
> (Brazil), and I'm also very interested in these topics. However, I'm<br>
> more interested in the higher education part and I see great potential<br>
> for Cantor as a report/assignment generating tool. For example, I<br>
> teach programming classes in the math department (using MATLAB/Octave)<br>
> and my students could use Cantor to deliver code along with the<br>
> results and comments.<br>
><br>
> I'm very interested and could help in the technical side (development,<br>
> although I'm not a very experienced C++/Qt programmer, more<br>
> Fortran/Python/C/Matlab).<br>
><br>
> Anyway, Marcelo feel free to contact me in Portuguese if you need anything.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Melissa<br>
<br>
</div>Hi,<br>
this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better opportunity to<br>
gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on making<br>
Cantor a better tool for teaching.<br>
As I am a student and wrote Cantor to fit my personal needs, it would be greate<br>
to gain insight to your needs from a teachers prespective.<br>
<br>
best regards,<br>
Alexander Rieder<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Aleix Pol <<a href="mailto:aleixpol@kde.org">aleixpol@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Marcelo Pires <<a href="mailto:marte032@gmail.com">marte032@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> Hello, okay? I am a student of mathematics, and would like to know your<br>
> >> opinion about mathematics and software in the world. Here in Brazil, the<br>
> >> government adopts free software in schools and universities, without the<br>
> >> prospect of building its own technology. Use free software, only to be<br>
> >> free, without a high cost to the government.<br>
> >> I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and Free<br>
> >> Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching basic math to<br>
> >> higher mathematics.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I await your response.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks in advance.<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Att. Marcelo Pires da Silva<br>
> >><br>
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> > Hi Marcelo!<br>
> > It's great that you're interested in this, mathematics, education and<br>
> > free software is a huge subject.<br>
> ><br>
> > In KDE Edu we have some pieces of software that fit your requirements.<br>
> > Maybe Cantor like Tomaz said and also KAlgebra, Kmplot and if you look<br>
> > a bit further in the future Khipu. Khipu is specially interesting<br>
> > though, because it's specially aimed for teachers who want to teach<br>
> > mathematics in class, using the computer. In this case, for displaying<br>
> > wonderful plots.<br>
> ><br>
> > Said that, it would be interesting if you take a look at what we've<br>
> > done and kickstart a bit the discussion regarding the subjects that<br>
> > concern you, I'm pretty sure it can be interesting for all of us!<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers!<br>
> > Aleix<br>
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