[Edu-sig] False alarms?

[kirby urner]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Sergio Rojas <sergio_r at mail.com> wrote:

>
>  Kirby, Definitely good points to invest a couple of beers cerebrating
> about
> them regarding the teaching and learning process and how to do better.
>  Thanks for sharing.
>
> Sergio
>


​Definitely worth some beers to figure out a master plan for improving
the educational experience of students everywhere.

With my so-called Martian Math, I have a market advantage in
that I've got some interesting content that practically no one else
is taking advantage of, yet there's a large public literature behind
it.

I told my summer campers they were entering a goldmine of
of raw material for possible research projects down the road,
which they could be pretty sure was fresh and new to their
teachers and peers.

Kirby
​



>
> ​Excellent question and highly relevant to bring up Common Core Math
> Standards.
> I understand a physicist dude came up with it originally?​  Seems I saw
> that somewhere.
>
> My attitude is CCMS is a bare minimum, a super stripped down
> almost-starving
> diet that sets a floor.  Faculties are free to pack it out with a whole
> lot more if they
> wish: golden ratio, polyhedrons (in vector spaces), unicode, and of course
> bases
> other than 10.
>
> CCMS is not a ceiling and was never intended as such.  We could treat it
> as about
> 10% of what we hope to cover -- under the heading of CS (I'm not sure math
> teachers will have the time, given they don't have the millisecond
> turnaround
> times we do, with our computers).
>
> Kirby
>
>
>
>
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