FreeCAD as teaching support for education.

[jruiz]

Some time ago I mentioned that FreeCAD, apart for being a program for CAx (x =D,E,M) It could be a CAS, S standing for science.
Well, IMHO, in these pandemic and post pandemic times, FreeCAD could be an excellent support for presenting lessons to students of Physics, Mathematics, Engeneering and related areas. So FreeCAD would be a program for CAx, and now there would be another E for x, standing for education.
I have uploaded some lessons on Physics and Mathematics tools in this respect, among them:
A Review on spherical coordinates (1/5)
A Review on spherical coordinates (2/5)
A Review on spherical coordinates (3/5)
A Review on spherical coordinates (4/5)
A Review on spherical coordinates (5/5)
Regards

[Kunda1]

Neat! Can you tell us how you made this ?

Also have you seen the MOOC Workbench ?

[jruiz]

Neat! Can you tell us how you made this ?

Of course.
After designing a screenplay for the lessons, created bodies for the needed objects in the appropriate order . Initially objects are hidden and show them as needed.

Also have you seen the MOOC Workbench ?

Not yet, but gonna take a look...

[vocx]

Nothing wrong with using FreeCAD as a teaching tool, however, to teach mathematics and analytic geometry there are more suitable tools. FreeCAD is generally cumbersome for this purpose.

I'd suggest something like GeoGebra. It is much simpler to draw 2D and 3D parametric curves with a program like this.

[kkremitzki]

I remember when I was taking materials science and we covered crystallography, I thought FreeCAD would be a neat tool for exploring concepts in that area, a little basic CSG modeling would go a lot farther than trying to visualize some concepts.

[chrisb]

to teach mathematics and analytic geometry there are more suitable tools.

I don't know GeoGebra and that may for others too be an important point. (Most) people here know FreeCAD and can use it right away. And it offers this nice 3D view, where where you can turn your artefacts and look at it from different positions. This helps avoiding to be fooled by the projection of 3D data to 2D.

[jruiz]

I'd suggest something like GeoGebra. It is much simpler to draw 2D and 3D parametric curves with a program like this.

Gonna take a look at GeoGebra.
Thank you.

[jruiz]

to teach mathematics and analytic geometry there are more suitable tools.

...And it offers this nice 3D view, where where you can turn your artefacts and look at it from different positions. This helps avoiding to be fooled by the projection of 3D data to 2D.

Just this feature is what I like best of using FreeCAD for teaching.
In my experience, sometimes some projections of 3D data to 2D may be misunderstood.

[chrisb]

I know this very well from screenshots I make for this forum. If I want to show a milling path it is often very easy to see where it is, if I can torn the object around. But it is sometimes near to impossible to find a decent camera position to make a screenshot showing the same.