Greetings edu-sig peers. Kirby from Portland, Oregon (MLK Weedend, 2010)
FYI here's me posting in a recent thread, Philippines user group: http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thread/thread/ad517401b06d7100?hl=en Parking some pointers, recycling some good stuff: <pointers> <lesson> Pythonic Math Lesson Plan: Simple Groups A simple and gentle introduction to group theory, well trammeled in the literature, uses modulo arithmetic on tiny finite sets. Python's operator overloading puts adding modulo N within reach of any snake wrangler. Concepts: GCD, totatives, relatively prime http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RelativelyPrime.html </lesson> <lesson> Pythonic Math Lesson Plan: A Game of Life Creatures move around a virtual chess board according to various rules. A time loop keeps computing successive frames. http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/jungle.py </lesson> <lesson> Pythonic Math Lesson Plan: T-Mod with a Turtle Trace the plane net for 1/120th of a Rhombic Triacontahedron. Use the Standard Library turtle module, print to paper, cut and fold, 60 left handed, 60 right handed. Example implementation: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-December/009683.html Related lessons: trace A, B modules, same volume as T modules </lesson> </pointers> _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
