[Edu-sig] recruiting for delta-calc / lambda-calc among post-algebra students

[kirby urner]

Edu-siggers might be interested in a rhetorical move, mainly for PR reasons
(recruiting, morale...), to rebrand "differential / integral calculus"
(Newton-Leibniz stuff) as also (equivalently) "delta calculus" (picture
Greek letter del hyphen calculus).

Why?

Well for one "calculus" is too generic a word to surrender to just one
brand or ethnicity and is qualified already as "differential calculus" etc.
(i.e. the delta concept is already implicit),

But also...

To help "level the playing field" so that lambda-calculus (an umbrella for
CS-friendly topics) might come to the foreground more as an equal player in
the high school setting.

For more on this meme / mnemonic:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2014/09/lambda-versus-delta.html

(with links to other fora e.g. maththinking-l with some overlap in
membership)

Kirby

More recently (providing more context for same theme):

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9608019
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