Hi Zak -- Glad you've joined us.
I used to be a full time high school math teacher in the 1980s (Jersey City), then worked at McGraw-Hill. We all though Logo and BASIC might be getting a mind-slice in pre-college math, but Texas Instruments won with math wars. These days, I sometimes get to field test through Saturday Academy. Martian Math was the latest such prototype (ongoing in other formats). http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2102469&tstart=0 Portland Public has also used my services (GIS / GPS a focus -- big on geography around here). I tend to think Python + Polyhedra could be a real sweet spot in the curriculum because Polyhedra are "objects" in literal sense yet also in a mathematical sense. Learning about "math objects" starting with Polyhedra, other geometric concepts, seems an ideal application of an OO language. I tend to use VPython quite a bit. I was sorry to miss Ruth Chabay's demo of Vpython at the recent American Association of Physics Teachers conference at the downtown Hilton. http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/people/faculty_chabay.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
