Computer Algebra in Education

at ACA'2011 to be held June 27-30, 2011 in Houston, Texas, USA

Organizers:

Michel Beaudin, ETS, Canada
Alkis Akritas, University of Volos, Greece
Bill Pletsch, Central New Mexico Community College, USA
Michael Wester, University of New Mexico, USA

Overview:

Education has become one of the fastest growing application areas for computers in general and computer algebra in particular. Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) make for powerful teaching and learning tools within mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, etc. Among them are: (a) the commercial "heavy weights" such as Casio ClassPad 330, Derive, Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MuPAD, TI NSpire CAS, and TI Voyage 200, and (b) the free software/open source systems such as Axiom, Euler, Fermat, wxMaxima, Reduce, and the rising stars such as GeoGebra, Sage, SymPy and Xcas (the swiss knife for mathematics).

The goal of this session is to exchange ideas, discuss classroom experiences, and to explore significant issues relating to CAS tools/use within education. Subjects of interest for this session will include new CAS-based teaching/learning strategies, curriculum changes, new support materials, and assessment practices from all scientific fields.

Papers presented in this session will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation for ACA'2011 as a whole. Submission date for the JSC's special issues is August 1, 2011 while the notification date will be December 20, 2011.

Please send your proposals via the ACA'2011 website (click on "Paper Submission" and use the EasyChair Login Page). Also, please send a copy of your abstract in PDF to Michel Beaudin.

Talks

  1. TI-Nspire CAS for Teaching at University Level
    (Michel Beaudin, ÉTS, Montréal, Canada)
  2. Teaching an Undergraduate Mathematics Course with Technology – What do the students think?
    (Karsten Schmidt, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
  3. The Critical Connection of Didactic Questions to CAS Activities
    (Wade Ellis, West Valley College, Saratoga, California, USA and Bill Bauldry, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA)
  4. Computer Algebra in Education: Maplets for Calculus: A CAS-Enabled Study Guide for Calculus
    (Philip Yasskin, Douglas Meade and Matthew Barry, USA)
  5. Teaching Automated Theorem Proving for Propositional Classical Logic with DERIVE
    (Gabriel Aguilera, José Luis Galán, M. Ángeles Galán, Antonio Gálvez, Yolanda Padilla, Pedro Rodríguez, University of Málaga, Spain)
  6. An Automatic Deduction Environment for Dynamic Geometry Based on the Open Source Computer Algebra System Sage
    (Francisco Botana and Miguel A. Abánades, Spain)

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Conferences on Applications of Computer Algebra main page