Why am I reminded of the "Math Class is Tough" Teen Talk Barbie? On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers. > > http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ > > Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and > concrete with Kill Math. > Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model > and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and > intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a > widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math. > > As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the > iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to > you, but the video and explanation will change your mind: > > Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main reasons > why people hate it so much. They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and > distribution tables, and the takeaway is that there are some equations that > you plug numbers into. Sad. Of course there are plenty of people working on > that, but there's still a ways to go. > > > > -tj > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder)
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