Beautiful! Thanks very much. Your presentation gets right to the point. Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to take a look at MathRider.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Ted Kosan <[email protected]> wrote: > Michel wrote: > > > What I now need is a simple, direct, knock-down, and hopefully fatal > > argument against the entrenched position that 'graphing calculators are > > enough'. That's really the whole source of the opposition I constantly > face > > in the high school world the AP and SAT are considered sacred and > anything > > 'else' is too much. > > The best arguments I have seen so far as to why math education should > be computer based have been made by Conrad Wolfram: > > http://www.conradwolfram.com/storage/Computer-based%20maths%20education.pdf > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsvPE1EqwQ8&feature=channel > > > However, I have had reasonably good success using a simple > presentation to convince people that mathematics-oriented computer > programming is superior to graphing calculators. Here is a > presentation I have been using for around 8 months to explain to > administrators and teachers why mathematics-oriented computer > programming is superior to graphing calculators in the real world: > > http://sage.ssu.portsmouth.oh.us/mathpiper/mathpiper_presentation_v.02.pdf > > So far almost every administrator and teacher this presentation has > been shown to seems to just get it. Then, instead of arguing about > whether or not a mathematics-oriented class should be taught at the > school, the focus of the discussion becomes working through the > logistics of offering the class as an experiment. > > Anyway, my thought is that you may also find this approach useful. > > Ted > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<sage-edu%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. > > > -- "Computer science is the new mathematics." -- Dr. Christos Papadimitriou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
