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I have a 5th and a 6th grader. I'm going to buy them an educational copy of Maple soon, so they can have a beautiful platform to plot 2-D and 3-D graphs, solve
by euroclydon 10y ago
I have a 5th and a 6th grader. I'm going to buy them an educational copy of Maple soon, so they can have a beautiful platform to plot 2-D and 3-D graphs, solve equations, do derivatives and integrals, and factor algebraic expressions.
I want them to do all this in high school, whether or not they take Calculus, so they can get an intuition for it. Then they can memorize the trig rules in college.
- Oletros 10y agoAS an Spanish not knowing the US education system, at what age one kid goes to 5th grade?
- euroclydon 10y agoMy 5th grader is currently 10 years old.
- colechristensen 10y agoThe median age in 1st grade is 6.
- Oletros 10y agoThanks to both of you
- ivan_ah 10y agoYou should also consider SymPy, available as a webapp http://live.sympy.org/ http://live.sympy.org/ or in jupyter notebook form. Plotting function graphs is a bit harder (matplotlib) but overall I find SymPy to be much more logical and easy to grok than Maple's weird syntax. Here is a short tutorial on how to do basic math using SymPy: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pdf https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
- euroclydon 10y agoI love Jupyter. I set up pydot in a notebook, and made high level functions to create and print trees and graphs. My 10 yr old picked it up quickly while we killed time at his brother's swim meet. But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine. I appreciated, in college, being able to quickly factor a polynomial, solve an equation, and find derivatives.
- ivan_ah 10y ago> But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine SymPy is the best CAS I know of. You can use the methods like expand, factor, collect, and solve on any expression.
- pdm55 10y agoHave you tried Geogebra?