Hey Kirby,
I've enjoyed the discussion, and of course I completely agree that dot
notation deserves attention in current math education. However, getting
that discussion going? Wow, from what I've seen ... it would be nearly
impossible. It would pretty much just get ignored.
Yesterday I was
At 10:08 AM 10/26/2012, michel paul wrote:
Yesterday I was involved in a math education group at my school
where an example suggested for introducing 'function' was 'toast'.
Basically, you put bread into the toaster, and magic/technology
happens out comes toast! So 'toasting' is a function.
Beautiful!
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Litvin lit...@skylit.com wrote:
At 10:08 AM 10/26/2012, michel paul wrote:
Yesterday I was involved in a math education group at my school where an
example suggested for introducing 'function' was 'toast'. Basically, you
put bread into the
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
Beautiful!
Many functions are irreversible, tiz true.
digested (chewed (toasted ( m ) ) ) -- encrypted
Good luck getting the plaintext back out again. Talk about lossy compression.
Kirby
Then eating a piece of toast
