[Edu-sig] Algebra 2

[kirby urner]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:52 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

<< SNIP >>

> I think rank and file math teachers over-hype this "beauty" business,
> then hypocritically suppress fractals pre-college, even in the face of
> obvious public demand and clear relevance to the complex plane, an IB
> topic at least.  Why not just say "interesting" or even "cute".  In my
> own curriculum writing, I try harder to be less disappointing to youth
> e.g.

Sorry, missing link:

http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/10/pythonic-math.html

Connects to Kraftwerk and some multi-lingual counting exercises,
important for getting into greek (tetra, penta, hexa...) and hence
Polyhedra, a starting point for our geometry curriculum (the purely
flat stuff comes later, as less intuitive).

Kirby