This was a point made by KCrisman on the recent thread regarding 'simplified function calls'. It immediately struck me as perfect for K-12 education to hear, so I forwarded it to our math and science departments.
It seems to have resonated! At least a little bit. : ) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michel paul Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM Subject: math & science majors need to know how to program -> unless they go into education To: hsmath , hsscience The following line was in a post on the sage-edu list: ''' Math and science majors are almost guaranteed to need to know how to program if they do not go into education, and even then it's a boon to them if they do, so knowing the OO paradigm (even if they don't call it that) can be useful. ''' I found this very interesting -> *guaranteed to need to know how to program if they do not go into education *...* * So, for anyone majoring in math or science, if you don't want to have to learn to program - just go into education! : ) This explains a lot about why there is such a disconnect between math as actually practiced in the world and math as taught in K-12. I think we're way due for a change - getting more educators to understand contemporary programming would do a lot of good. -- Michel ================================== "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman ================================== "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.
