On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Sergio Rojas <sergi...@mail.com> wrote:
> Okey-dokey, Kirby. Nice exposition, including the web links. > To explore this issue a bit further, how, in your view, > the Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org/) > fit in the CS call at schools? > > The standard points what perhaps is already being implemented as > an operational way to approach it: > from page 7 of > http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards1.pdf > > > 5 Use appropriate tools strategically. > Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when > solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil > and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, > a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, > a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. > > > Excellent question and highly relevant to bring up Common Core Math Standards. I understand a physicist dude came up with it originally? Seems I saw that somewhere. My attitude is CCMS is a bare minimum, a super stripped down almost-starving diet that sets a floor. Faculties are free to pack it out with a whole lot more if they wish: golden ratio, polyhedrons (in vector spaces), unicode, and of course bases other than 10. CCMS is not a ceiling and was never intended as such. We could treat it as about 10% of what we hope to cover -- under the heading of CS (I'm not sure math teachers will have the time, given they don't have the millisecond turnaround times we do, with our computers). Kirby
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