[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:02:35PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
The larger question we should be asking is simply "Do computers belong
in high schools?"
My answer is: no.
I'm interested in that sagemath.org Mathematica like app for math and physics
teaching. That would require every student to at least have web access.
If I'm teaching high school, does a *student* having Mathematica improve
my ability to teach?
I would argue that the answer is no. In fact, it likely gets in the
way. This is almost universally true with the singular exception of
word processing.
That having been said, the *teacher* having Mathematica may be a useful
thing. Than again, it may not.
One of the comments I get most often is: "We learned a lot from watching
how *you* solve these problems. You hit every single step and don't
leave things out."
Something like Mathematica would hide the individual steps that I take
to go through things.
-a
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