On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Dan Peirce <peirce.dan@gmail.com> wrote:
I came across an old story at http://onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/pythonnews.html
about Teaching Math with Python. Unfortunately the links are now broken. Is there more current information available? Any online publications?
I'm fixing these links for ya, thanks for dredging that up. Ah, but this is Rich Text, I forget what happens to the URLs in the edu-sig archives....
From the article:
""" Urner is writing curricula for teaching math using Python. The world of textbooks and the educational system in general is too excruciatingly slow, though. Urner has taken his curriculum to the web with the Oregon Curriculum Network <http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/>, a web publishing platform and model for other curriculum developers. This site is a blessing for home schoolers and rogue educators looking for an alternative math curriculum. In February he started with a four-part article on Numeracy and Computer Literacy <http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html>. In these articles he covers analysis of number series, vectors, primes, and random movement through a matrix. All of these are backed with examples in Python. Inspired by some new features in Python 2.0 (zip() and list comprehensions), Urner has published this month ideas for teaching Precalc with Python 2.0 <http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/precalc.html>. He uses Python to bring clarity to precalc formulas and uses POV-Ray to bring them to life. """ (History: Internet Arena, my ISP at the time, up and left with no notice, leaving many links broken). Here are those URIs again: Oregon Curriculum Network: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/ Numeracy and Computer Literacy: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html Precalc with Python 2.0: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/precalc.html Kirby _______________________________________________
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