[Blindmath] SAGE?

Thu Jan 20 15:50:17 UTC 2011

They have 3 apps.  Wolfram alpha is a trim down interface to their web CAS/info system.   The wolfram alpha interface is really worth the $1.99, since it saves old searches and exports and drags to other apps nicely.  My blind student produces graphs and pastes them into Pages to produce print materials that blow away his sighted peers' pen and pencil work.  For my money the alg and calc course asst. is worth the $1.99 and $2.99 respectively.  Just to save me the trouble of not mistyping something on a touchscreen and have all the syntax completed for me.  They also produced a Music Theroy app for $1.99, that I'm dying to dig into... But I'm buried in apps right now prepping an iPad for teachers course.

The output in table forms doesn't always read in an easy way, but when used with a refreshable braille display I was pretty happy with what I got.  I was using a Focus 40 Blue.  

Did I mention I LOVE MY JOB?

On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Alex Hall wrote:

> I am not sure what we would use it for, but it would be a project to
> be worked on alongside the rest of the class work. Tomorrow we will
> find out if the professor is going to ocntinue SAGE or let us work on
> research projects and present them at the end of the year instead. If
> the latter, this whole SAGE thing will go away.
> Wolfram has an iPhone app? I recently got an iPod and would love to
> try this. Is it free?
> 
> On 1/20/11, Sean Tikkun <jaquis at mac.com> wrote:
>> I'm curious what your Calc 2 class will be doing with SAGE?  Wolfram
>> research is a CAS leader and has put most of the mathematica engine on
>> Wolfram Alpha.  They also released 2 apps over the weekend that give preset
>> menus and data boxes for iPad/iPod use.  It's really slick and paired with a
>> bluetooth refreshable braille display... will I'm just starting to have fun
>> with that.  I'm certain their are limitations... But I'm curious if anyone
>> can compare the two.  The Alg and Calc app really are driving close to TI-80
>> series functions in a really simple, and screen reader accessible, format.
>> Graphs will always be a challenge, but it allows for a table of values
>> instead of graph for evaluation.
>> 
>> I've been hitting them with e-mail suggestions for a few months. No
>> response, but maybe they were already working on it.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Roopakshi Pathania wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> When I first came across Sage, they were planning a native port for
>>> Windows. If you check the main page, it looks like they still haven't
>>> started it.
>>> http://windows.sagemath.org/
>>> But if you go to the download page, there are a couple of binaries.
>>> http://windows.sagemath.org/download.html
>>> 
>>> Of course as they mention, Sage can be run on Cygwin.
>>> 
>>> One more thing: when I have tried to access publicly available Sage
>>> worksheets, they were not particularly accessible as I couldn't seem to
>>> distinguish between Math and Python code for Math.
>>> That's probably because they are using MathJax or JSMath and I cannot seem
>>> to ever manage to read MathML  served that way.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- On Wed, 1/19/11, Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] SAGE?
>>>> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics"
>>>> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 8:54 PM
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> Sage has two interfaces, a commandline one and a web-based
>>>> one that you access via a browser.  I use the
>>>> commandline interface all the time and its perfectly
>>>> accessible.  I've never used the web based interface
>>>> but imagine it will be much harder to work with.
>>>> 
>>>> Sage only runs on linux, so you will need a linux
>>>> installation.  If you don't want to install linux just
>>>> for that then you should find out if you can get access to a
>>>> linux machine with sage which you can SSH into.
>>>> 
>>>> Best wishes
>>>> 
>>>> Alastair Irving
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 19/01/2011 14:06, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I am starting calc 2 this semester. Apparently, we use
>>>> a program
>>>>> called SAGE. How is this for accessibility? What
>>>> should I know about
>>>>> this, or should I just seek an alternative? Thanks in
>>>> advance.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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