[Edu-sig] Python for math teachers (Google videos)

[Arthur]

kirby urner wrote:

> I advise the Minister of
> Education to keep the alliance going with our neighbor computer languages,
> as our common enemy is this cork in the bottle which keeps kids the
> prisoner of the personal calculator fanatics.  They should have the choice
> to break free, and into the wilds of "gnu math" (an invented meme in geek
> culture).

And I am advising otherwise, with much the same goal.  Knowing that if 
the alternative presented to me, for my students, was the personal 
calculator, or constructivist voodoo of the Kayian flavor, they'd be 
stuck with the calculator.

We need to disassociate, and be the Third Way.

Art