Yes, interesting post. It would be great to see calculus taught in Jupyter notebooks.
Allen Downey's work is great. I am watching his SciPy 2017 computational stats talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He9MCbs1wgE Also, interesting, Christopher Fonnesbeck - Introduction to Statistical Modeling with Python - PyCon 2017: https://youtu.be/TMmSESkhRtI Perry On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:00 PM, <edu-sig-requ...@python.org> wrote: > Send Edu-sig mailing list submissions to > edu-sig@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > edu-sig-requ...@python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > edu-sig-ow...@python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Edu-sig digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. if I taught high school calculus today... (kirby urner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:50:28 -0800 > From: kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> > To: "edu-sig@python.org" <edu-sig@python.org> > Subject: [Edu-sig] if I taught high school calculus today... > Message-ID: > <CAPJgG3Q5XVmSsiWafNsq928EiYGKYi7XMmQiBsi4fm9-1_HP4w@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I was a high school calculus teacher (also algebra, geometry, trig) first > job outta university, stuck with it for two years. > > Fast forward to almost age 60, and I'm teaching coding to middle schoolers, > thinking it's all still math. [1] > > Shouldn't take a "computer scientist" to cover this stuff... Algorithms are > algorithms after all. > > Were I to teach calculus today, in light of what I now know, I'd focus on > probability density functions right when we get to integration, as "area > under the probability curve" is precisely how we figure out chances of > something happening. > > We would use Jupyter Notebooks with SciPy, all free & open source. > > As I recall, our calc curriculum never did much to bridge to statistics, > but in SciPy / NumPy, every continuous probability distribution function > (PDF) comes with a cumulative distribution function (CDF) that's defined > exactly as a definite integral between A and B, and giving the probability > some x in distribution X falls between A and B. > > Forming a bridge twixt calculus and data science would be another strategy > for getting scientific calculators to share the road, with more relevant > free tools (always an ulterior motive for me). I don't think a TI is able > to do definite integration over a standard normal curve. > > Actually, I see I'm wrong: > http://cfcc.edu/faculty/cmoore/TINormal.htm > > Oh well, back to the drawing board. I still think a strong tie-in twixt > calc and data science makes a lot of sense at the high school level. With > or without Jupyter Notebooks. > > Kirby > > PS: right now I'm going through Allen Downey's tutorial on Bayesian stats > using the above mentioned tools, from Pycon 2016: > https://youtu.be/TpgiFIGXcT4 > I attended this conference, but didn't manage to make this tutorial. > > [1] I've shared this before, still relevant: > https://medium.com/@kirbyurner/is-code-school-the- > new-high-school-30a8874170b > > Also this blog post: > http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2018/02/magic-squares.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/attachments/ > 20180219/d9e2f965/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Edu-sig Digest, Vol 174, Issue 1 > *************************************** > -- perrygrossman2...@gmail.com (617) 383-9061
_______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig