On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Sergio Rojas <sergi...@mail.com> wrote:
> > 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 > Definitely worth some beers to figure out a master plan for improving the educational experience of students everywhere. With my so-called Martian Math, I have a market advantage in that I've got some interesting content that practically no one else is taking advantage of, yet there's a large public literature behind it. I told my summer campers they were entering a goldmine of of raw material for possible research projects down the road, which they could be pretty sure was fresh and new to their teachers and peers. Kirby > > 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 > > > >
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