Wow, Kirby, thanx! That's high praise indeed! BTW, I'm always sharing your 3D geometry pages with my colleagues. Regards, AJH
Sent from BlueMail On Jun 12, 2017, 1:15 PM, at 1:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Peter Farrell <funcalcu...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Jorge and Kirby, >> >> Great ideas! You're preaching to the choir here. Especially the line >"Why >> don't we toss out the Graphing Calculators and just learn a little >bit of >> coding?" I spoke with the math department head at a rich private High >> School nearby who finished proving her school didn't need my techy, >codey >> nonsense by saying, "We already use technology in our math classes: >the >> TI-84." >> >> >The competitive spirit in me is encouraged by your news. So many >schools >are deliberately holding their kids back. That means more of my >students >will get the fun work, less of theirs. Yay. > >I know that sounds selfish, but it's their choice to self-cripple with >TI-only curricula. > >You're in California right? A backward state by most accounts. > > >> And once you have some practice creating functions to calculate >> derivatives and integrals, you can get fancy and personalize the >notation >> like Kirby showed. The programmer can do anything, with a toolbox >like >> Python! >> >> Peter >> > >I've got Jorge Garcia memorialized as a master teacher on math-teach >[1], >but then he's already gotten a few rewards. I bet you'll be getting >some >as well if you continue to champion quality education in the face of >know-nothing schools. > >Kirby > >[1] http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2864078 >I'm really glad he recorded audio from his classroom, live, and put >that on >Youtube. Only a small percentage of teachers have the guts to do that. >Great contribution! > >PS: remember to change the subject line and you don't have to quote >the >entire digest. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >Edu-sig@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
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