[Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

[michel paul]

"We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical
description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists.  The job
of the physicist is that of modeling phenomena within the physical scales of
observed events. For some systems, the modeling can be done more effectively
using algorithms."

This is very interesting.  Thanks for sending it.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu>wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> this is a document I write as a summary of a meeting I attended in 2006 at
> Argonne National Laboratory about revising the Physics curriculum. If it is
> of any use you can do anything you want with it.
>
> Massimo
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> On Oct 16, 2008, at 5:55 PM, michel paul wrote:
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> This would be a great text for a high school math/CS class:  Math for the
> Digital Age <http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html>.
>
> - Michel
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, roberto <roberto03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hello
>> (i am rather new in python ...)
>>
>> i am about to start a course of physics and math for students aged
>> 14-17 (high school)
>> and i am deeply interested in the possibilty of teaching fundamental
>> concepts of these subjects via teaching programming;
>> i chose python (i won't change my mind ...)
>>
>> so i am looking for resources on how to deal with these topics via
>> this great programming language;
>>
>> i need some help from you and moreover if you are aware of books
>> already covering these need
>>
>> thank you in advance
>> --
>> roberto
>> OS: GNU/Linux, Debian
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