Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-02 Thread mokurai
On Sat, July 2, 2011 2:10 pm, David Handy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 10:33:35PM -0400, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: >> >> On Fri, July 1, 2011 9:28 am, David Handy wrote: >> > I've written a beginning Python >> > programming book (an updated attempt at the "BASIC from the Ground Up" >> >

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-02 Thread mokurai
On Fri, July 1, 2011 2:06 pm, kirby urner wrote: > A weakness in contemporary geometry is this belief that it's best to start > in the abstract / ethereal realm of the infinite this and the > dimensionless that. The real origin of geometry was the necessity of resurveying all agricultural land in

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-02 Thread David Handy
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 10:33:35PM -0400, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: > > On Fri, July 1, 2011 9:28 am, David Handy wrote: > > I've written a beginning Python > > programming book (an updated attempt at the "BASIC from the Ground Up" > > that got me started), I've taught short, free seminars

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread mokurai
e school. > > Again, I appreciate your support, and I look forward to collaborating with > you. Likewise. > - Original Message - > From: moku...@earthtreasury.org > To: "kirby urner" > Cc: edu-sig@python.org > Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 1:32:45 AM &

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread mokurai
On Fri, July 1, 2011 9:28 am, David Handy wrote: > I've written a beginning Python > programming book (an updated attempt at the "BASIC from the Ground Up" > that got me started), I've taught short, free seminars here in North > Carolina and Virginia, and am doing what I can in my "spare time" to

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread kirby urner
@David: thanks for the autobio, starting in Hillsboro where I was talking about the police jumping into Linux to improve their relations with youth culture. It was an experiment. Saturday Academy was where the police turned for instructors, which I where I came into that story, via George Heusto

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread Litvin
moku...@earthtreasury.org To: "kirby urner" Cc: edu-sig@python.org Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 1:32:45 AM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra On Fri, July 1, 2011 1:41 am, kirby urner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: >> >> On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm,

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread mary . dooms
d to collaborating with you. - Original Message - From: moku...@earthtreasury.org To: "kirby urner" Cc: edu-sig@python.org Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 1:32:45 AM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra On Fri, July 1, 2011 1:41 am, kirby urner wrote: > On Thu, Jun

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-07-01 Thread David Handy
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:41:45PM -0700, kirby urner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: > > > > On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm, mary.do...@comcast.net wrote: > > > > > > I teach 6th grade math and Python was suggested as a way to apply > > > pre-algebra concepts in a programming cont

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-06-30 Thread mokurai
On Fri, July 1, 2011 1:41 am, kirby urner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: >> >> On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm, mary.do...@comcast.net wrote: >> > >> > I teach 6th grade math and Python was suggested as a way to apply >> > pre-algebra concepts in a programming context. My programmi

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-06-30 Thread kirby urner
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: > > On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm, mary.do...@comcast.net wrote: > > > > I teach 6th grade math and Python was suggested as a way to apply > > pre-algebra concepts in a programming context. My programming background > > consists of one C++ programming class.

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-06-30 Thread mokurai
On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm, mary.do...@comcast.net wrote: > > I teach 6th grade math and Python was suggested as a way to apply > pre-algebra concepts in a programming context. My programming background > consists of one C++ programming class. How do I begin? Python is one of several excellent

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-06-30 Thread Vern Ceder
Welcome Mary. Mary first posted her question on my blog post about ISTE, so I sent her here, thinking of the work that many of you have been doing. In addition to Kirby, Andy Harrington has been looking at Python and algebra and I know there were others. I hope some of us can help you out. Cheer

Re: [Edu-sig] Python and pre-algebra

2011-06-29 Thread kirby urner
Hi Mary -- Many subscribers to edu-sig have developed interesting approaches over the years. There's a lot of interest in turtle art and/or turtle graphics. There's this tendency to divide algebra from geometry, whereas some teachers think it's important to keep lexical and graphical connected.