[Edu-sig] another edu-sig page textbook (suggesting to AR)

[Maria Droujkova]

The blurb says "not for dummies engaging style." I want a book like
that, well, not for dummies, but for people who may already harbor
significant math anxiety. They tend to disengage seeing certain
artifacts or representations...

I think this book is a very cool resource and I intend to use it. With
the kind of students I have in mind, we may need to create our own.
With more cowbell (or, as Kirby put it earlier, comics).

-- 
Cheers,
MariaD

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both, per the back cover:
>
> """
> Some students may choose to study AP Computer Science in high school,
> or major in CS in college.  Others may decide to go into math,
> science, law, art, social sciences, or humanities.  Regardless of your
> goals, Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python will
> help you gain a better understanding of the computerized world around
> you.
> """
>
> ... definitely looking at high school in Oregon, on a math track, not
> a CS track per se, as the Silicon Forest lobby here is working with
> our state legislature to have discrete math alternatives that segue to
> college and private industry tracks, e.g. we could use this in place
> of Algebra 2.
>
> Kirby
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
>>>
>>> I have desk review copy, think many will appreciate the quasi-seamless
>>> blend of old and gnu world typographies, i.e. sigma and set notation,
>>> with concepts of iterator, types, functions etc.
>>
>> Would this be appropriate for high school students, or as a first CS course
>> for non Computer Science majors ?
>>
>> André
>>
>>>
>>> Reminiscent of 'Concrete Mathematics' though less difficult and
>>> explicitly Python based.
>>>
>>> For those training to read algebra, higher math, this is a friendly
>>> introduction (no cartoons or comics though -- gets you prepared for
>>> the somber dryness of the ambient literature).
>>>
>>> Kirby
>>> _______________________________________________