Re: [Edu-sig] seasonal challenge to calculator dominance in high schools

2019-06-24 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:54 PM Wes Turner wrote: > > I grew up in Omaha, NE and the suburbs of St Louis, MO. I don't remember > when I leaned about the "Old Man River" proposal to build a dome over all > of East St Louis in 1971 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project >

Re: [Edu-sig] seasonal challenge to calculator dominance in high schools

2019-06-24 Thread DL Neil
On 24/06/19 6:08 AM, kirby urner wrote: Somewhere every summer, I tend to call into question the wisdom of buying the kids another scientific calculator at the drug store (we call them that here, pharmacies have calculators hanging on racks at the checkout, to cash in on gullibility and

Re: [Edu-sig] seasonal challenge to calculator dominance in high schools

2019-06-24 Thread DL Neil
On 24/06/19 7:14 AM, Wes Turner wrote: > It would be a good team-teaching lesson, one teacher on the white-board lecturing, and the other typing the python-translation of the lecture into code on a big screen. Do you find teamed presentations to be more effective, contrived, or overwhelming