The blurb says "not for dummies engaging style." I want a book like that, well, not for dummies, but for people who may already harbor significant math anxiety. They tend to disengage seeing certain artifacts or representations...
I think this book is a very cool resource and I intend to use it. With the kind of students I have in mind, we may need to create our own. With more cowbell (or, as Kirby put it earlier, comics). -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Both, per the back cover: > > """ > Some students may choose to study AP Computer Science in high school, > or major in CS in college. Others may decide to go into math, > science, law, art, social sciences, or humanities. Regardless of your > goals, Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python will > help you gain a better understanding of the computerized world around > you. > """ > > ... definitely looking at high school in Oregon, on a math track, not > a CS track per se, as the Silicon Forest lobby here is working with > our state legislature to have discrete math alternatives that segue to > college and private industry tracks, e.g. we could use this in place > of Algebra 2. > > Kirby > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html >>> >>> I have desk review copy, think many will appreciate the quasi-seamless >>> blend of old and gnu world typographies, i.e. sigma and set notation, >>> with concepts of iterator, types, functions etc. >> >> Would this be appropriate for high school students, or as a first CS course >> for non Computer Science majors ? >> >> André >> >>> >>> Reminiscent of 'Concrete Mathematics' though less difficult and >>> explicitly Python based. >>> >>> For those training to read algebra, higher math, this is a friendly >>> introduction (no cartoons or comics though -- gets you prepared for >>> the somber dryness of the ambient literature). >>> >>> Kirby >>> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig