This looks like a possible approach to for a parent to engage an older child in using a computer to explore math. http://www.wiredacademic.com/2012/12/jonathan-mugan-teaching-your-child-to-hack-math/
"This embodiment of math in programming enables your child to poke and prod math like it is a living thing, allowing learning to happen through experimentation." "Your child can also use programming to build a math toolkit that will be useful later. This toolkit can be used to check homework and do class projects. When your child learns a new algorithm in school, such as long division, he or she can program the algorithm in Python and use it to check intermediate computations. Having access to this toolkit and the ability to expand it will foster a habit of computational thinking. Your child can grow to be like a digital sorcerer casting spells and learning new ones." comments? Note my previous postg was related but I had forgotten to add a subject. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
