Kirby writes - >And it's not just programming >that's kept at bay, but computer graphics and animation. The >pre-college mainstream remains strangely bereft of serious-minded >spatial geometry
It's frustrating how close and far we are from each other on this particular point, at the same time. Can we negotiate?? You insist - it seems to me (not directly in the quote above, but generally) - on making this a Fuller thing, and as such, something visionary, a bit rebelous, and certainly outside/beyond the of thinking of mainstream math educators. I have been able to demonstrate to you that a mathematician as mainstream as Felix Klein was pitching this exact point about spatial geometry- not abstractly in the laboratory but in seminars he conducted for pre-college math educators - at least 30 years before Fuller had a word to say on the subject. Different world views, you and I, I guess getting in the way. Klein is much more "from the mountain top" then Fuller, in my world - especially when we are talking about geometric ideas. And since we are talking about working within the academy, I think it important we have our facts straight, in terms of attribution of ideas. And from a pure *getting things accomplished* point of view, why present ideas in a way that makes them seem less mainstream, more tied to the insights of a Unique Genius, then they actually are, when one looks at the facts. Its just good math - in Kleins's presentation, at least. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
