[Edu-sig] Python for math teachers (Google videos)

[Arthur]

kirby urner wrote:
> 
> The *sounds* modest, yes, plus leaves you free to critique any actual
> implementation of a perspective as immodest.  Calling for perspective
> isn't really doing any work, is just being modest.  *Providing* 
> perspectives
> is the name of the game.

PyGeo is interesting work.

My efforts to assist in provding VPython a future(lead actually, since 
no one else has stepped up to the plate) is important work.

Immodest enough for you.  Feel better.

> 
> Yet when I teach kids in this age group this stuff, mixed with a lot of 
> math,
> they often clamor for more (as do their parents, others guardians -- one of
> the dads sat through much of my last class actually).

My intuition is that you are an excellent and intuitive teacher. Don't 
know for sure.

> 
> Geek culture is like a missing ingredient in their diet.  Geek culture 
> seems
> *good* in at least *small* doses.  But right now, it's still *no* doses, 
> pretty
> much across the board.  Just a lot of stereotyping, misleading TV and 
> movies.
> 
> And I dislike it surrounding the pontificating used to justify Algebra
> I, Algebra II,
> Geometry, Pre-calc, Calc (in whatever order), all undisturbed fossils
> for the ages,
> no chance of any Python unless we jump through stupid hoops proving over 
> and
> over we're not just full of snake oil (got some __ribs__ in here too).

So much of the Grand Fallooning sounds like snake oil and *is* snake 
oil, that particularly those trained in mathematics - in the art of 
plausibility - will react, and over-react.

We agree about everything, except that we disagree about everything as well.

Art