Kirby, Definitely good points to invest a couple of beers cerebrating about them regarding the teaching and learning process and how to do better. Thanks for sharing.
Sergio Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 8:58 PM From: "kirby urner" <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> To: "Sergio Rojas" <sergi...@mail.com> Cc: "edu-sig@python.org" <edu-sig@python.org> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms? On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Sergio Rojas <sergi...@mail.com[mailto:sergi...@mail.com]> wrote: Okey-dokey, Kirby. Nice exposition, including the web links. To explore this issue a bit further, how, in your view, the Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org/[http://www.corestandards.org/]) fit in the CS call at schools? The standard points what perhaps is already being implemented as an operational way to approach it: from page 7 of http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards1.pdf[http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards1.pdf] 5 Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Excellent question and highly relevant to bring up Common Core Math Standards. I understand a physicist dude came up with it originally? Seems I saw that somewhere. My attitude is CCMS is a bare minimum, a super stripped down almost-starving diet that sets a floor. Faculties are free to pack it out with a whole lot more if they wish: golden ratio, polyhedrons (in vector spaces), unicode, and of course bases other than 10. CCMS is not a ceiling and was never intended as such. We could treat it as about 10% of what we hope to cover -- under the heading of CS (I'm not sure math teachers will have the time, given they don't have the millisecond turnaround times we do, with our computers). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
