I saw this blog post today on what it would be like if math was taught as an fine arts program. This might be even more effective it it were to include an experimental aspect provided by J.
http://j2kun.svbtle.com/what-would-math-class-look-like-if-it-were-a-fine-art Cheers, bob On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:15 AM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > About teaching, a standard university curve is 10 20 40 20 10 percent for > grades of A B C D F. When I was teaching math, I addressed mostly the middle > 40 per cent, but I made sure to include some material aimed at the top 30 per > cent, and some aimed at the top 10 per cent. > > --Kip Murray > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Why can't it be both a table and "just a bunch of lines"? >> >> I know that when you are teaching a large set of students you need to >> address the intersection of their abilities. And I understand that once we >> set up ways of thinking for ourselves we tend to like following those >> patterns in other contexts. But we also tend to like discovery and learning >> new things and if we adhere *too* strictly to our old habits we miss some >> of the joys of discovery. >> >> That said, these questions are not actual programming and I do not know if >> you are subscribed to the chat forum, so I am going to Cc you directly. I >> also decided to clean up the subject line, since I am not sure I like the >> way the mail forum software handles these things. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
