A small group is preparing a National Science Foundation education grant proposal to investigate how to make it easier for faculty to adopt and integrate mathematics software into undergraduate mathematics courses. Of course, we think Sage is a great vehicle for this. We will propose creating a variety of curricular materials revolving around Sage and typical undergraduate topics, and also improvements to Sage itself that will directly address classroom needs at the undergraduate level. If funded, we anticipate having stipends and small grants for others in the Sage community to participate in the project.
We are especially interested in individuals and institutions without much prior use of Sage that would be interested in commiting to trying out new materials in their courses, participating in evaluations with their students, and providing comprehensive reports on their experiences. A real plus would be physical proximity to one of the members of the grant group (listed below). We also hope to achieve a real mix of institutions represented: public/private, big/small, 4- year/two-year, selective/open-enrollment, etc. Stipends would be available to compensate for your involvement, and technical support might also be available. If you are interested please consider sending a short expression of interest. Or maybe you have a colleague at your institution who does not read the Sage lists, or know of a colleague at another institution, and you can alert them to the possibility. Send replies to Rob Beezer at <bee...@ups.edu>, or post general questions here on the list. We will follow up with those where it seems the match is good for the purposes of the grant. Of course, all of this is subject to eventually having the project funded. Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Jason Grout, Drake University, Des Moines, IA Tom Judson, Stephen Austin Sate University, Nagodoches, TX William Stein, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Kiran Kedlaya, UC San Diego (Fall 2010), San Diego, CA -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
