(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
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
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
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.
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
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
-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
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
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
Still going.
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175
Ada Day posting:
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