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Look Ma, No Calculator! Python, Markdown & Jupyter Notebooks
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Look Ma, No Calculator! Python, Markdown & Jupyter Notebooks

Learn how to use Latex and Sympy for free in the cloud!
Last updated 3/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • In this course, students and teachers alike, will learn how to work on their math and science course work for free in the cloud, no graphing calculators needed!
  • Jupyter Notebooks include "text windows" aka Markdown to comment your work with HTML tags and Latex commands making professionally laid out formulae and text.
  • Jupyter Notebooks also include "code windows" aka cells for your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) using Python.
  • Work examples from Algebra to Calculus using a Python Package called SYMPY, a Computer Algebra System (CAS), free on the Google Compute Platform (GCP).

Course content

1 section11 lectures3h 51m total length
  • Introduction: LMNC 100 Welcome!12:17
  • LMNC 101a Pythonic Arithmetic Lesson!23:59

    Here we talk about all seven standard Arithmetic Operators in standard Python. Next video (101b) is an exercise where you practice what you learned in this video (101a). See solutions in *.ipynb file. To run the code in a *.ipynb file upload to http://colab.research.google.com

  • LMNC 101b Pythonic Arithmetic Exercise.17:10
  • LMNC 201a Symbolic Python Lesson!26:41

    Here we introduce Algebraic Operators in the Python Package SYMPY. Next video (201b) is an exercise where you practice what you learned in this video (201a). See solutions in *.ipynb file. To run the code in a *.ipynb file upload to http://colab.research.google.com

  • LMNC 201b Symbolic Python Exercise.17:02
  • LMNC 301a Calculus I Lesson!12:33

    Now we work on Differential Calculus using the Python Package SYMPY. Next video (301b) is an exercise where you practice what you learned in this video (301a). See solutions in *.ipynb file. To run the code in a *.ipynb file upload to http://colab.research.google.com

  • LMNC 301b Calculus I Exercise.13:09
  • LMNC 401a Calculus II Lesson!22:18

    Next let's do some Integral Calculus using the Python Package SYMPY. Next video (401b) is an exercise where you practice what you learned in this video (401a). See solutions in *.ipynb file. To run the code in a *.ipynb file upload to http://colab.research.google.com

  • LMNC 401b Calculus II Exercise.17:08
  • LMNC 501a Calculus III Lesson!46:54

    Lastly, we'll try some Multivariable Calculus using the Python Package SYMPY. Next video (501b) is an exercise where you practice what you learned in this video (501a). See solutions in *.ipynb file. To run the code in a *.ipynb file upload to http://colab.research.google.com

  • LMNC 501b Calculus III Exercise.22:12

Requirements

  • No prior experience is required. I will walk you through all examples from the ground up!

Description

In my course, “Look Ma, No Calculator,” students and teachers alike, will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks for free in the cloud instead of using expensive graphing calculators in their course work! Students can use Jupyter Notebooks to complete classwork and homework in Math and Science classes and easily check their work. Teachers can use Jupyter Notebooks to plan their Math and Science lessons and deliver lessons in their classrooms coding on the fly with their students.

We will be using a free version of Jupyter Notebooks called Colab which is integrated with Google Drive. You can save all your code on Google Drive in special *ipynb (interactive python notebook) files which run live. In other words all your input and output is automatically saved as you type and can easily be edited, shared and re-evaluated as needed.

You will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on the Google Computer Platform (GCP) using Markdown and Coding cells. Markdown cells use Latex and HTML to produce professionally typeset formulas and text as is found in scholarly journals and textbooks. Coding cells use standard Python for arithmetic and graphing in addition to the SYMPY package for symbolic calculations as a Computer Algebra System (CAS). The cell paradigm is similar to that used by Mathematica or MATLAB.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for students and teachers who want to learn a powerful and free CAS for use in their course work in Math & Science classes. We cover everything from standard Python arithmetic to Algebra, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus and Multivariable Calculus with SYMPY. Teachers will learn to use Jupyter Notebooks with their students right away. Students can easily check their homework and do classwork using Markdown, Latex, Python & SYMPY.