I definitely believe that a good way to improve our current math curriculum
would be to weave in computational number theory. This would be the 21st
century answer to 'back to basics'.
I think a huge problem in student math illiteracy has to do with not
understanding division, remainders, and rat
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Gregor Lingl wrote:
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> kirby urner schrieb:
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>> Yes thank you I completely agree. A stash of sieves, plus data mine
>> this very archive for our earlier work on this topic.
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>> My only suggestion is you include a generator version e.g.:
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> At first this
Hi David --
I've been looking at your PythonOOP.
Why use classes? All programming aside, I think it's a fairly strong
grammatical model of how people think, basically in terms of
noun.adjective (data attribute) and noun.verb() (callable method).
All talk of computer languages aside, we're very n
kirby urner schrieb:
Yes thank you I completely agree. A stash of sieves, plus data mine
this very archive for our earlier work on this topic.
My only suggestion is you include a generator version e.g.:
At first this seems an attractive idea, but in my opinion the idea of
sieves is fairly
Awhile back I posted some scripts for defining and populating
'newgeom', a database of polyhedra in Sqlite.[1]
The idea of a classroom database is not new.
Enter
http://myschool/ms_purky/geom/polyhedra/?poly=tetrahedron and get some
view, courtesy of Django.
http://myschool/mr_duffy/geography/u
I've added a few more topics to http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/CS2/P4SE.txt,
including Black Hole, and Wave-Particle Paradox. Any physicists on the list?
I'll do the programming if you can advise me on the physics.
H Bomb - start with a bowling ball of LiDT. Squeeze til it goes boom. How
Hi all,
A good friend of mine and I have finished translating the Mercurial book
to spanish. You can find it on PDF and 1-page HTML at
http://devnull.li/libromercurial/index.es.html
You can also find the sources for the book on
http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/mercurial_book_es/
The transla
