On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:52 AM, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > I think rank and file math teachers over-hype this "beauty" business, > then hypocritically suppress fractals pre-college, even in the face of > obvious public demand and clear relevance to the complex plane, an IB > topic at least. Why not just say "interesting" or even "cute". In my > own curriculum writing, I try harder to be less disappointing to youth > e.g. Sorry, missing link: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/10/pythonic-math.html Connects to Kraftwerk and some multi-lingual counting exercises, important for getting into greek (tetra, penta, hexa...) and hence Polyhedra, a starting point for our geometry curriculum (the purely flat stuff comes later, as less intuitive). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
