On Thursday, January 16, 2014 5:12:32 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > > > > > Awesome. I had never heard of a ring or group until my last year of > undergraduate studies! Maybe sage is just my grand scheme to increase the > chance that people learn about some of the most basic (and beautiful) ideas > in math at a younger age... > > > I doubt that this is the direction that math education is going. There are apparently some efforts to teach algebra early www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200301/*Algebra*.pdf
and I have not particularly followed that. I was encouraged by some efforts to inculcate some common sense approximation notions, and some basic consumer-economics-statistics anti-fraud math in early years. e.g. how fast can you compute 39*41 ? How fast can you compute (40-1)*(40+1) ? at 5% interest per year, compounded, how long does it take to double your money? etc. The chance that you will need group theory before you get to college (or not go to college) seems low. RJF -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
