Thank you all for the great resources!!!
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:10 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, roberto <robert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook? >> I sifted through your post but couldn't find it. >> >> Thanks for sharing. >> > > > > Hi Roberto -- > > What I meant was, 'Mathematics for the Digital Age...' > (which you already know about) is an excellent > textbook, and I mentioned it in that thread. I wonder > if you were thinking a meant some *other* book. > > Quoting from the thread I linked to: > > """ > Clearly, at one end of the spectrum we have books like 'Mathematics for the > Digital Age and Programming in Python' (used at Phillips / Andover, a > college prep high school, by the authors). > > At the other end of the spectrum we have textbooks showing > little-to-no-awareness of the doors one could be opening in high school, to > the prospective CS major. We can score them accordingly, and what I'm > looking for is criteria. > > A high school math course should open as many doors as practical and being > CS-friendly in this day and age is an important criterion. I'm telling > parents what they can look for, even if teachers don't seem to care. Look > for examples of functions that are non-numeric in nature. > """ > > http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9391791 > > Related: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathfuture/GszzTxcxEoE > > Kirby > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread: >>> >>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194 >>> >>> Kirby >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <robert...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing >>>> >>>> Roberto >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <lit...@skylit.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Roberto, >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your >>>>> amazon link is to the old edition. >>>>> The current edition is at >>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/0982477546, >>>>> also available at >>>>> www.skylit.com. >>>>> >>>>> Gary Litvin >>>>> >>>>> >> >> >> -- >> Roberto >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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