On 13.01.2009, at 17:53, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected] > > wrote: >> I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's >> sense, >> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was >> inspired by the same idea: >> >> "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in Mathland, >> a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P. > > SP means 'what Frenchland is to French', right?
If that was a joke I didn't get it. > I grew up near Sugarland, and visited it regularly. > It still makes me think of rotting teeth and nothing wholesome. > >> Also see >> >> http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html > > yes... a great project to discuss, actually. Indeed. Does anybody have contacts to them, to find out in more detail why it was canceled? - Bert - _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
