2009/9/27 kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com:
This isn't the kind of critique most people have in mind when they
start questioning the hegemony of the graphing calculator empire.
Definitely not, but what a great perspective, pun intended.
- Michel
2009/9/27 Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com:
Hi Hélène --
Yes I recall your discussions. You may already have checked out some
of my Python-related writings here:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html
A backdoor straight to my code, if you don't want to dig through any essays is:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/
One thing I
On Sep 27, 2009, at 19:38 , Charles Cossé wrote:
Hi, this has probably been discussed to death already, but maybe
not: The point at which fancy graphing calculators become
necessary (ie as in one's student career) is the point at which
the calculator should be abandoned and Python
Brian Blais wrote:
On Sep 27, 2009, at 19:38 , Charles Cossé wrote:
Her kids should do the
exercises by hand, on graph paper instead. Anything that is hard enough
for you to use a graphic calculator can be done much more easily with a
computer.
Agreed,
After giving her this advice
2009/9/28 Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu:
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Just a month ago, a friend of mine who homeschools her children was asking
me about graphing calculators. Apparently the math curriculum she uses has
a number of graphic calculator exercises. My advice was to buy a nice
solar-powered
Hi Hélène,
I'd like to point you to a suite of sample scripts
that use Python's turtle module. You can find it here:
http://python-turtle-demo.googlecode.com
It contains a demo-viewer turtleDemo.py that lets you
inspect the source code of the example scripts and execute them.
So you get an
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Well, the curricula have been customized to fit what the calculator
can do, with encouragement towards the more upscale models that do
some graphing and CAS (fractor equations, solve integrals...). A lot
of what passes for math in this day and age is just a glorified
calculator, your
Hi Brian,
I think I have a counterexample.
Run the script, that you can find here:
http://svn.python.org/view/*checkout*/python/branches/release26-maint/Demo/turtle/tdemo_chaos.py?revision=73559content-type=text%2Fplain
(or below.) Runs with Python 2.6 or later.
It certainly could be
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion -- I'm familiar with that project and have
really enjoyed showing it off to the students. It's a really great
package.
What I'm looking for is more of a 'real-world' example. I know
students at some point get burned out looking at and creating nifty
programs for
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb:
Hi Brian,
This ran perfectly on Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73069, May 31 2009,
08:57:10) on my WinXP box (one of a few).
Note: if this level of chaos / noise bothers you (the functions are
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb:
Hi Brian,
This ran perfectly on Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73069, May 31 2009,
08:57:10) on my WinXP box (one of a
Yup, similar experience here. And graphing calculators have now been
promoted to the point where their importance is probably no longer
questioned ... which is too bad ...
There are many ways to graph python-generated computer data. I have dabbled
with many, but for various reasons I continue
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/28 Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu:
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Just a month ago, a friend of mine who homeschools her children was asking
me about graphing calculators. Apparently the math curriculum she uses has
a number of
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