Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year to all my Pythonesque friends. :-) Have a great 2003. Best regards, Steve Edwards Ô¿Ô¬ steve@nowfindme.com -steve@totalqualitytraining.com www.nowfindme.com - www.totalqualitytraining.com There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life--happiness, freedom, and peace of mind--are always attained by giving them to someone else. Author unknown
I'm been playing with the new Set class, added in 2.3a -- wondering if others have been as well. I'm gearing up to write something for the Math Forum, showing how Python is a great tool for teaching math concepts -- using the new Set object in particular (I've already posted oodles regarding other apps, as per http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/numeracy0.html ) In general, it's more fun to have live/interactive notations (aka interpreted programming languages) and the ability to program algorithms means this isn't just black box arithmetic (the way it is with calculators, at least when they're being abused). More broadly, I'm brainstorming heuristics that'd anchor a different way of approaching math (it would be more a hybrid of current compartments -- more computer than currently standard). Major categories like Time, Space, Objects and Events would be the top-level key words. For more thinking along these lines, see: http://www.dstoys.com/Members/kirby/Works/documents/bigpicture.html/view http://www.mathforum.org/epigone/math-learn/krermplumgul http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/trends2000.html Kirby
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:55:32AM -0800, Kirby Urner wrote: ...
More broadly, I'm brainstorming heuristics that'd anchor a different way of approaching math (it would be more a hybrid of current compartments -- more computer than currently standard).
Major categories like Time, Space, Objects and Events would be the top-level key words. For more thinking along these lines, see:
http://www.dstoys.com/Members/kirby/Works/documents/bigpicture.html/view
In my browser (Galeon) I cannot read this page because the black column in the right obscures the last word on each line. even if I reduce the letter size, the problem remains (not to mention that I do not see any flash animations because I've failed to compile the free clone of the flash plugin).
http://www.mathforum.org/epigone/math-learn/krermplumgul http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/trends2000.html
Very interesting ideas. I think that's a nice teaching scheme. (I teach physics and math at the college level) Regards, Jaime P.S. I'm sorry I do not have anything to say about the Sets class because I have not used it yet.
At 09:13 AM 1/8/2003 +0000, Jaime E. Villate wrote:
http://www.dstoys.com/Members/kirby/Works/documents/bigpicture.html/view
In my browser (Galeon) I cannot read this page because the black column in the right obscures the last word on each line. even if I reduce the letter size, the problem remains (not to mention that I do not see and flash animations because I've failed to compile the free clone of the flash plugin).
Thanks for the feedback Jaime. I had a too-wide GIF in that article and Mozilla/Galeon was having problems -- which I hadn't noticed until you brought it to my attention. I took out that picture and it should display OK now. Regarding Flash, this site doesn't as yet do a whole lot with it (the animation in the upper right is just minor eye candy). However, you perhaps needn't go to the trouble of compiling a clone. There's a Flash plug-in for Netscape that runs on Linux. It installs in the .mozilla folder of your home directory, and will give Galeon (as well as Mozilla) the same powers. See: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ Kirby
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