Another really cool one is Ron Englash on math from Africa: http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
-Marshall On Nov 30, 9:03 pm, Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > 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_m... > > 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_... > > 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 > ------- > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- 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.
