Re: The audience for Mathematica (Was: Show doesn't
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- Subject: [mg102272] Re: The audience for Mathematica (Was: Show doesn't
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 05:48:29 -0400 (EDT)
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DrMajorBob wrote: > > Helen Read <hpr at together.net> wrote: >> DrMajorBob wrote: >>> Brilliant, Helen! >>> >>> This wasn't so easy the first semester you tried, I assume? >> I've been teaching this way with Mathematics for so long that it has >> become second nature, but yeah, I'm sure I have gotten a lot better at >> it over the years. > > I'm not talking about getting BETTER at it. I'm talking about how > DIFFICULT this must have been, the first time. Every class is beastly > difficult the first time or two, IMHO. I don't remember it being particularly difficult when I started teaching with Mathematica, but I added it in gradually. I didn't use it nearly to the degree that I do now when I first started with it. > Perhaps you had been teaching calculus for some time already, before you > added in Mathematica? I had been teaching for about 8 years when I started adding in Mathematica. -- Helen Read University of VERmont