Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-29 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
(Apologies if you've read this already. I posted it from my cell last week but I don't see it in the edu-sig forum archives.) It is such a battle at both the High School and College levels of Math to try anything new. All the traditional Algebraic and Graphing Calculator techniques are so

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-29 Thread kirby urner
I really like the traffic on edu-sig as I sense the whirl-winds from here. Nice overlook. True story: this summer I did another Martian Math class, a short fun experience for self selected mid-teens with a penchant for math and things academic, so there by choice, on a bright summer's day, but

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-26 Thread michel paul
Hey Kirby, I've enjoyed the discussion, and of course I completely agree that dot notation deserves attention in current math education. However, getting that discussion going? Wow, from what I've seen ... it would be nearly impossible. It would pretty much just get ignored. Yesterday I was

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-26 Thread Litvin
At 10:08 AM 10/26/2012, michel paul wrote: Yesterday I was involved in a math education group at my school where an example suggested for introducing 'function' was 'toast'. Basically, you put bread into the toaster, and magic/technology happens out comes toast! So 'toasting' is a function.

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-26 Thread michel paul
Beautiful! On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Litvin lit...@skylit.com wrote: At 10:08 AM 10/26/2012, michel paul wrote: Yesterday I was involved in a math education group at my school where an example suggested for introducing 'function' was 'toast'. Basically, you put bread into the

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-26 Thread kirby urner
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote: Beautiful! Many functions are irreversible, tiz true. digested (chewed (toasted ( m ) ) ) -- encrypted Good luck getting the plaintext back out again. Talk about lossy compression. Kirby Then eating a piece of toast

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-25 Thread gerry lowry +1 705 429-7550 wasaga beach ontario canada
-bounces+gerry.lowry=abilitybusinesscomputerservices@python.org] On Behalf Of kirby urner Sent: 2012 October 25 Thursday 00:41 To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it) Capping the Math Forum thread with a blog post entry point: http

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-25 Thread kirby urner
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:00 AM, gerry lowry +1 705 429-7550 wasaga beach ontario canada gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com wrote: Hello Kirby, i took a very brief look at your http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2012/10/dot-notation-again.html. There does not appear to be any way to

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-24 Thread kirby urner
Capping the Math Forum thread with a blog post entry point: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2012/10/dot-notation-again.html (I may link back the other way -- not sure yet) Also X-Ref: Math 2.0: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mathfuture/bw7UfqqNk9w/oRRsA5YaY3IJ (reply to a Pythonic Math

Re: [Edu-sig] dot notation (in favor of sharing it)

2012-10-19 Thread kirby urner
Still going. http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175 Ada Day posting: -- Forwarded message -- From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [Diversity] How will [] free software be improved by being developed by a bl