On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 at 10:40AM -0800, kcrisman wrote: > This space has often talked about the relation between math and > computers in education. Conrad Wolfram (yes, the brother of that > Wolfram) has a very engaging talk about this in the Ted series. (If > you've never checked out the Ted talks, you should - there is also one > about AIMS, for instance, as Rob B. has pointed out earlier.) > >http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html
This is a bit offtopic, but I would also recommend: * Hans Rosling on world population statistics: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html If you care at all about statistics or data visualization, watch that video. * Arthur Benjamin: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html Have you ever seen a crowd get excited and cheer when someone does a multiplication problem? * Dan Meyer, on math education and bad textbooks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8 There are tons of TED videos that are really mind-expanding. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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