Geekdom is having a field day over this apparent stumble by Mattel as it contrives to boost Barbie in the brains department without being too disruptive to cultural norms (she's a mainstream doll after all, meant for middle-of-the-road middle-classers, e.g. nuclear families with power nesters in the suburbs [1]).
She was well on her way to geek status until this new "Barbie book"... ...thread continues on the Math Forum @ Drexel: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9647539 Kirby [1] 'Over the Hedge' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327084/ (Barbie grows up to become president of homeowners association) Random comment on student quiz (me to student on a question about set type): playing with the set type for awhile, poking and prodding, is great review of the whole concept of set, a mathematical concept often used to introduce mathematical concepts in their most generic and therefore definitive form. As a former high school calculus teacher, I always wonder why more schools don't take advantage of the Python prompt over the calculator, as calculators are poor at set operations.
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