[Edu-sig] 'discovery learning' with Python...

[kirby urner]

Related links:

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2010/education-paradox
http://www.acm.org/news/featured/acm-pcast-statement

The idea of a new "digital math" track alongside the current "analog math"
track (leading through calculus) is different language than CinC's rhetoric
(Computing in the Core), but the goal is the same:  raising topics in
computing (not just keyboard/mouse and Internet skills) to the same
level as the rest of mathematics in terms of counting as "core".

That this acronym STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics)
is now explicitly including computer science is what the 2nd link is about.
Some math teachers were ridiculing the acronym as more edu-speak **,
but hey, everyone uses acronyms and abbreviations.

Kirby

** http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2154964&tstart=0

My thanks to Bill Marsh for the above links (Math Forum debater)

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Litvin <litvin at skylit.com> wrote:
> Thanks to both!
> Gary Litvin
>
> At 10:08 PM 10/9/2010, kirby urner wrote:
>>
>> That's cool.
>>
>> I was hoping my bold assertion of being almost alone on the front
>> lines would inspire protests from my comrades.
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Calcpage <calcpage at aol.com> wrote:
>> > I've been selling python, SAGE and the Litvin text to High School math
>> > and
>> > compsci teachers for some time too!
>> >
>> > I've been talking up python on the AP Calculus, AP Physics and AP
>> > CompSci
>> > listservs quite a lot actually.  I also promote python on my blog!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > A. Jorge Garcia
>> > Applied Math & CS
>> > Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC
>> > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
>> > http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
>
>