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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Arthur
>
> My position here has been that the importance of transmitting to students
> an understanding of scientific understanding needs to be a among the most
> fundamental goals of education.
Wand
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> From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I pick up my tetrahedron (black electrical tape on the edges, good
> > contrast), and say "Measuring cup!" (I probably say more). Then I sco
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From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > The problem though, in my view, is that it is on fourms like
> > edu-sig ( and debian edu list) that the exploration of these kinds
> > of "polemics" are both most relevant and least welcome.
> >
> > Which says something
> The problem though, in my view, is that it is on fourms like
> edu-sig ( and debian edu list) that the exploration of these kinds
> of "polemics" are both most relevant and least welcome.
>
> Which says something in-and-of-itself.
>
Let's just put it this way: I'm a technologist immersed in
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From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:19 am
Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] RE: Concentric hierarchy / hypertoon (was pygame etc.)
> Arthur:
> > The tragedy I see is that it is in fact the technologists -
> specifically>
Arthur:
> The tragedy I see is that it is in fact the technologists - specifically
> those immersed in IT - who are emerging as the most formidable obstacle to
> progress, as I would define it.
More polemics it'd be interesting to use for new threads. But maybe not on
edu-sig.
More some other ti
> I suspect this exchange is more interesting to you and I than to others on
> the list and that it would be most appropriate to table it to a face-to-
> face at PyCon breaks - except that my schedule is conspiring against it,
> it now looking that I won't be able to make it there. The best I can
> -Original Message-
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Engineering and a focus on artifacts
> trumps
> political efforts to block basic innovations in math teaching. There's
> really no stopping us, politically speaking (because we really don't care
> about politics that m
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > No major mind damage is going to be done by a different presentation.
> >
> > But I would like to disassociate the notion of geometry and the
> regularity
> > of forms as completely and as early as possible. And this is where I
> seem
> > to be
> No major mind damage is going to be done by a different presentation.
>
> But I would like to disassociate the notion of geometry and the regularity
> of forms as completely and as early as possible. And this is where I seem
> to be most non-Fullerian.
>
> Art
>
Not claiming to follow, but y
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> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: 'Arthur'; edu-sig@python.org
> Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] RE: Concentric hierarchy / hypertoon (was pygame
> etc.)
> Basically, once you'
> Might they also be interested that in Egypt, long-ago, in the shadow of
> the Pyramids, folks not only understood this to be true, but were not
> content with this knowledge. A way of thinking was developed that allowed
> them to become satisfied that the truth of this observation "makes sens
> -Original Message-
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I pick up my tetrahedron (black electrical tape on the edges, good
> contrast), and say "Measuring cup!" (I probably say more). Then I scoop
> up
> a boat load of beans. Now it's full. In my other hand, Cube. How
Kirby:
> But just the concentric hierarchy piece: you've got these few polyhedra,
> they organize this way, and the relative volumes are like this. It's not
> that big -- something we can share in K-12 no problem (and I do so).
>
So I walk into this classroom with a box of polyhedra. Stiff pap
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