I just posted another essay to the Math Forum on why I consider calculators and the faux controversies around them, to be a serious bottleneck:
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=5589504&tstart=0 I've taken this line at OSCONs, encouraging collaboration across language communities to help address deficiencies in the current numeracy curricula, including in K-12 (pre-college). Uniting against calculators, in favor of computer languages, helps keep us from religious wars about "which language". An older overview essay, a longer one, is linked from Jim Roepcke's site here: http://jim.roepcke.com/6828 (note that I didn't manage to deliver the presentation that went with that paper at Pycon 2004 in DC, as my late wife had just been diagnosed with cancer, so I flew back to Portland, missing Pycon (she and I came to DC together for Pycon 2005, where I talked more informally about hypertoons)). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
