Mailman 3 November 2011 - Edu-sig

xturtle online via processing.js !?
by Jurgis Pralgauskis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi, I am struggling around with interactive online py tutorials with https://launchpad.net/projects/intro-to-code (ith might become securely sandboxed soon, as pypy made it possible http://blog.sandbox.lt/en/WSGI%20and%20PyPy%20sandbox :) but one more thing is I'd like to let access xturtle functionality online - one possible way could be triggering tkinter to save its canvas to ps, and then convert them with imagemagic and show via web (animated gif or static) - but if pyjamas can render GUI for js (http://www.google.lt/search?&q=pyjamas+python ), mayby there is a way to **translate turtle commands to processing.js analogues** http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ would it be difficult -- how do you think? -- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; jabber: jurgis(a)akl.lt; skype: dz0rdzas; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://sagemath.visiems.lt

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OO and story problems
by kirby urner 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

I've been haunting the math-teach list, as usual, suggesting we take a page from AP computer science and build our math around an interlinked, themed, consistent set of story problems -- rather than making these "meaningless" (deliberately). The opponents in this debate bring up the specter of political manipulation, propaganda, tainted "pure math" with someone's good ideas about applications. My approach to math teaching, as readers here know (some of 'em), is to bake OO into the matrix pretty early, meaning the idea of "math objects" (vectors, polyhedrons, rational numbers) connects to our Pythonic notion of types. Here's some background reading for any wanting to sample the more detailed nuances of this thread (on-going, and for over a decade for sure). http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2289577&tstart=0 (most posters long time veterans of this list, with carved out positions) I also take it a step further in that the story problems under consideration often have a strong "off your duff" component, in that your mathematical reasoning translates into physical expenditure of energy. Yes, sounds a lot like summer camp (the "self quantification movement" also syncs up). http://fastwonderblog.com/2011/07/30/crunching-the-numbers-open-source-comm… http://hashtags.foxepractice.com/healthcare-hashtag-analytics.php?hashtag=Q… http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/urnermindstorm.pdf Kirby

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 17
by Marianne McKenna 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 16
by Marianne McKenna 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 15
by Marianne McKenna 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

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Blogging Math Notations
by kirby urner 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Steve Holden (PSF chairman) put some hours into this one and is feeling somewhat satisfied with the result: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/11/blogging-mathematics.html I need to guinea pig one of my own blogs in a bit, with some simple formulas, including S = 10 * F ** 2 + 2 no doubt (but in 1800s notation).** Good work Steve. Kirby ** http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 14
by Marianne McKenna 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 13
by Marianne McKenna 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 12
by Marianne McKenna 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

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Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 100, Issue 11
by Marianne McKenna 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

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