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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu]: KDE-Edu and edubuntu
From:       "Nicolas Pettiaux" <nicolas.pettiaux () ael ! be>
Date:       2006-10-01 18:57:55
Message-ID: f89206d80610011157r1411a246qf46a521c6b8fbea1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2006/9/30, Susan Addington <saddingt@csusb.edu>:
> Dear Anne-Marie,
>
> I am a teacher (of mathematics) to future elementary teachers, and have been
> investigating the possibilities for open-source software in my classes, and
> my students' future classes.
> Derive
> (the computing engine behind the TIs; I don't use this because it only runs
> on Windows). Maple and Mathematica are much too complex to use for most
> students, and are very expensive.

please give Maxima a try and I suggest wxmaxima as the frontend.

Maxima is the closest free-software to Maple and Mathematica, and just
needs more users, more tutorials, howtos, simple examples and course
ware that use Maxima instead of the proprietary tools.

> There is also a shortage of unified, educationally sound mathematics
> curriculum in many of these areas.

in any field of science this is the same ...

I volunteer to help with that (I am a physics teacher at secondary level)

Regards,

Nicolas

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Nicolas Pettiaux - email: nicolas.pettiaux@ael.be
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