[Edu-sig] a non-rhetorical question

[kirby urner]

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Kirby


On 7/10/07, Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> One thing that always comes up when our math department discusses
> non-standard algorithms is long division of polynomials.  Doesn't seem like
> any non-standard algorithm is easily applied there.
>
> Changing the focus a little: I've been thinking of the importance of student
> motivation in learning a programming language.  I've always found The Python
> Challenge to be quite motivating to get me writing code and learning more
> about Python.  I don't know how it could be done, but could a similar
> approach be used to supplement a middle or high school programming class?
> Any ideas?
>
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay Bloodworth <jbloodworth at sc.rr.com>
> ....
>
> * (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2, not a^2 + b^2.  Here there is the
> standard geometric area model for multiplication.  Sometimes I present
> multiplication with the model, sometimes not.  It doesn't seem to change
> the error rate.....
>
>
>
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