[Edu-sig] parked lesson plans

[kirby urner]

Greetings edu-sig peers.

Kirby from Portland, Oregon (MLK Weedend, 2010)

FYI here's me posting in a recent thread, Philippines user group:

http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thread/thread/ad517401b06d7100?hl=en


Parking some pointers, recycling some good stuff:

<pointers>
<lesson>

Pythonic Math
Lesson Plan:  Simple Groups

A simple and gentle introduction to group theory,
well trammeled in the literature, uses modulo
arithmetic on tiny finite sets.

Python's operator overloading puts adding
modulo N within reach of any snake wrangler.

Concepts:  GCD, totatives, relatively prime
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RelativelyPrime.html

</lesson>

<lesson>

Pythonic Math
Lesson Plan:  A Game of Life

Creatures move around a virtual chess board
according to various rules.   A time loop keeps
computing successive frames.

http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/jungle.py

</lesson>

<lesson>

Pythonic Math
Lesson Plan:  T-Mod with a Turtle

Trace the plane net for 1/120th of a Rhombic
Triacontahedron.  Use the Standard Library
turtle module, print to paper, cut and fold, 60
left handed, 60 right handed.

Example implementation:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-December/009683.html

Related lessons:  trace A, B modules, same
volume as T modules

</lesson>
</pointers>