FSF in education

Wed Aug 8 15:32:09 UTC 2012

Hi all,

I'm studying Mathematics too and using the Sage backend; indeed Cantor is a
wonderful tool.

Alexander Rieder worte:
>this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better
opportunity to
>gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on
making
>Cantor a better tool for teaching.

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!

Marcelo Pires wrote:
>I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and
>Free Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching
>basic math to higher mathematics.

It's a very interesting topic for a thesis project, I hope the pappers of
David Tall can help you:

http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/downloads.html

specially:

http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/pdfs/dot1987e-graphic-packages.pdf

helped me a lot when I was doing my thesis too.

Best regards,
Percy

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Alexander Rieder
<alexanderrieder at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 August 2012 10:13:20 Melissa Mendonça wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This might be the time for me to jump into the conversation. I'm here
> > because Tomaz basically forced me to join (lol), I'm a professor at
> > the Mathematics Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
> > (Brazil), and I'm also very interested in these topics. However, I'm
> > more interested in the higher education part and I see great potential
> > for Cantor as a report/assignment generating tool. For example, I
> > teach programming classes in the math department (using MATLAB/Octave)
> > and my students could use Cantor to deliver code along with the
> > results and comments.
> >
> > I'm very interested and could help in the technical side (development,
> > although I'm not a very experienced C++/Qt programmer, more
> > Fortran/Python/C/Matlab).
> >
> > Anyway, Marcelo feel free to contact me in Portuguese if you need
> anything.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Melissa
>
> Hi,
> this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better
> opportunity to
> gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on
> making
> Cantor a better tool for teaching.
> As I am a student and wrote Cantor to fit my personal needs, it would be
> greate
> to gain insight to your needs from a teachers prespective.
>
> best regards,
> Alexander Rieder
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Marcelo Pires <marte032 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> Hello, okay? I am a student of mathematics, and would like to know
> your
> > >> opinion about mathematics and software in the world. Here in Brazil,
> the
> > >> government adopts free software in schools and universities, without
> the
> > >> prospect of building its own technology. Use free software, only to be
> > >> free, without a high cost to the government.
> > >> I'm with a thesis project where I want to discuss mathematics and Free
> > >> Software, as in fact be using free software in teaching basic math to
> > >> higher mathematics.
> > >>
> > >> I await your response.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Att. Marcelo Pires da Silva
> > >>
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> > >
> > > Hi Marcelo!
> > > It's great that you're interested in this, mathematics, education and
> > > free software is a huge subject.
> > >
> > > In KDE Edu we have some pieces of software that fit your requirements.
> > > Maybe Cantor like Tomaz said and also KAlgebra, Kmplot and if you look
> > > a bit further in the future Khipu. Khipu is specially interesting
> > > though, because it's specially aimed for teachers who want to teach
> > > mathematics in class, using the computer. In this case, for displaying
> > > wonderful plots.
> > >
> > > Said that, it would be interesting if you take a look at what we've
> > > done and kickstart a bit the discussion regarding the subjects that
> > > concern you, I'm pretty sure it can be interesting for all of us!
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > Aleix
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