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, 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. 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. 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.htmlKirby