When I start introducing Python I use this chart [1]:
Five Dimensions of Python:
- Level 0: core syntax with keywords & punctuation, indentation (import,
if...)
- Level 1: a large set of built-ins (e.g. print)
- Level 2: special names with the double underlines
- Level 3:
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 12:39 PM kirby urner wrote:
> Fond memories. [1]
[1]
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjyyLxcQ (pix from a Pycon in Santa Clara)
https://youtu.be/iBvd5gU2sgY (another Lightning Talk -- at Santa Clara)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pythonic-andragogy-kirby-urner/ (on
Pytho
https://youtu.be/enO1vgOJxwM
Were I to join the Saturday Morning queue, and share a Lightning Talk at a
Pycon. Fond memories. [1]
This 4 min 38 sec YouTube speaks to teachers in that Venn Diagram where the
set of math teachers and set of Python programmers intersect. edu-sig has
always
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 1:09 AM DL Neil via Edu-sig
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> On 4/03/24 06:30, kirby urner wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM Wes Turner > <mailto:wes.tur...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > They're dunder methods; double-underscore
> >
> >
&
On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM Wes Turner wrote:
> They're dunder methods; double-underscore
>
>
Certainly they are and my intro definitely includes this information.
Check out the following Dog class, endowed with two of Python’s “magic
methods” also known as: “dunder methods” (with “dunder”
Long termers here will likely remember my fave Pythonic Pedagogy: to
introduce special names as __ribs__.
Because pythons have lots of __ribs__.
I've not abandoned this idea, just haven't been redundantly reposting about
it here for some time.
But now...
Why not share a couple "friend links"
I've linked to this Notebook previously, however seeing as it's on Github,
it keeps getting updated (just by me in this scenario):
https://nbviewer.org/github/4dsolutions/m4w/blob/main/Polyhedrons.ipynb
Github view:
https://github.com/4dsolutions/m4w/blob/main/Polyhedrons.ipynb
This Notebook
Thanks for jumping in David.
I concur, the Excel environment is a productive "home base" for deriving
the visualizations and is in many cases is sufficient.
In the Office model, one is then expected to embed said visualizations in a
Word document, perhaps exporting to PDF, if wanting to add more
own experience with regional faculties.
Kirby Urner
Oregon Curriculum Network
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To: trimtab-book-c...@googlegroups.com
The post below goes back to our
github.com/4dsolutions/m4w/blob/main/m4w_hmwk_oct22_2023.ipynb
Something fun: https://econgoat.ai/en
Kirby Urner
4dsolutions.net
usa.or.pdx (Portland)
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It's mostly about books, but edu-sig is mentioned.
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I just got Reuven M. Lerner's Bamboo Weekly (I'm a subscriber) which asks
what I use Python for and talks (succinctly) about pandas.
This specimen is interesting I think...
https://nbviewer.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Synchronizing_on_S.ipynb
... because I'm using
Sometimes my students are also learning English and it's fun to build on
that.
However, even if you're perfectly fluent in English, the following exhibit
might prove instructive, regarding Python:
"""
This type of object gets along with nobody!
or·ner·y
ˈôrn(ə)rē/
adjective North American
Originally from Math4Wisdom public listserv, hosted by Andrius Kulikauskas,
PhD.
https://www.freelists.org/list/math4wisdom
From: kirby urner
Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [math4wisdom] Re: What is algebra? How do we describe adding,
subtracting, multiplying, dividing?
To: M4W
As some of us will have experienced, quite a few budding data analysts in
training will come to Python via numpy and pandas, heading towards seaborn
and dash, perhaps from past experience in R or Matlab, perhaps not.
They've never yet had a core Python class, but are likely to have one in
the
I was glad to see FreeCodeCamp recommending a math-with-Python course just
now. Description, with links, appended.
A lot of us on edu-sig have advocated for and/or practiced this genre for
some decades, with in-person summits and everything. We're a hub!
I've long been working in the same
I'd say there's no easy wix --> Django migration path, with Django a
premier and free Python website development framework.
You'd need to start over.
Why, though? What's wrong with wix? What do you imagine you would get out
of a Python do-over?
Feel free to contact me off list. edu-sig tends
https://youtu.be/obZqST6mBn8 (2 mins 41 secs)
My first video on PyScript.
Alludes to other topics in my Python for High School stuff.
https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/PY4HS.ipynb
Kirby
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This latest answer links to our edu-sig home page and talks about Python in
education.
https://qr.ae/pvkQkA
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The pedagogy I'm showcasing below follows my theme of "classes first"
and/or "classes early" i.e. we can capitalize on the object oriented
perspective encapsulating how we think in human terms, about objects (known
as "things" in the vernacular (joke)). Granted some my find the object
oriented
/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Flextegrity_Lattice.ipynb
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>
>
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> Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 6:47 PM
> Subject: Python III: Python Programming and Data
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From: Sunshine Elite Education
Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 6:47 PM
Subject: Python III: Python Programming and Data Structure for High School
: July 5: after class
To:
Cc:
Greetings students --
This is in followup to our first meetup, which just ended.
I'm just winding up the winter-spring term.
This was actually an 8th grader cohort, pre highschool, but it's an
accelerated curriculum.
They're already doing vector cross products in physics.
https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_highschool_math.ipynb
I'm continuing to
I share these emails to my students from time to time, to document the
progress of an 8th grade online class.
The Notebook I was working on today.
https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/TheCabal.ipynb
-- Kirby
==
From: Sunshine Elite Education
Date: Sun, May 29, 2022
An email to students, after Zoom class this evening:
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From: Sunshine Elite Education
Date: Sun, May 15, 2022 at 9:32 PM
Subject: Data Structure and Algorithms in Python: May 15: After class (re
Quicksort)
To:
Thanks for joining me this evening.
The
From: Sunshine Elite Education
Date: Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Data Structure and Algorithms in Python: Sunday May 8: Pre Class
Prim's Algorithm
Greetings guys --
In the old days of purely paper textbooks, adding to them or changing them
was hard and only happened from one edition
In a few minutes I'll join Sunshine Elite Education online
and help out like a gym coach in some ways, because
Algorithms and Data Structures, at the 8th grade level,
is a doorway into a competitive sport: competitive
programming (CP). Although the contests are geared
towards youth, say high
Sorry about the crummy formatting guys, of the
forwarded missive. I would have provided a link
but TrimTab BookClub is a private archive. Here
I'm just 1-2-3 testing that I can sign into edu-sig
directly and post through the HyperKitty interface.
Any feedback is welcome of course.
On this
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From: kirby urner
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 7:50:48 PM UTC-7
Subject: Re: exhibit: after class note to students, Silicon Forest elite
school
To: Trimtab Book Club
A very similar letter to my recent one, why? I'm teaching two groups
What I didn't fully realize, when I signed on as the
Algorithms and Data Structures teacher, for two
groups of 8th graders, is that ADS is pretty much
the property of CPers at the age level. CPers?
Competitive Programmers. They join olympiads
I'm continuing to develop curriculum for a tiny elite college prep school
smack in the center of the Silicon Forest, a place called Bethany Village,
which specializes in offering after school elective time activities (e.g.
martial arts, foreign language learning). [0] Nearby: Intel, Tektronix,
I was following the Wordle craze, looking for a list of five-letter words.
Little did I know I'd stumble upon the Stanford GraphBase.
https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_research_1.ipynb
There's also some Pi Day stuff, for teachers taking advantage of 3-14.
Kirby
[ see notes for my guide to names for Portland ]
Greetings Pythonistas --
One of my usual updates regarding curriculum dev from my angle.
These days I've been hacking on:
https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_intro_1.ipynb
Of relevance to curriculum writers such as myself
is a change in how Github redirects links to the
same repo, if said link is to a Jupyter Notebook.
It used to be that Markup like [Volumes](Volumes.ipynb),
i.e. no path, just a Notebook name, would work in a
Github repo. A student could jump from
-recursive versions on REPL.
Anyway, the computer science angle is important, not just the Blender / CAD
/ CAM.
Kirby
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:58 PM kirby urner wrote:
>
> So are we encouraged to use match-case in recursion instead of if-else?
>
> It's more readable this way ma
So are we encouraged to use match-case in recursion instead of if-else?
It's more readable this way maybe:
cubocta310.py:
def cubocta(n):
"""
https://oeis.org/A005902
"""
match n:
case 0: return 1
case _: return (10*n*n + 2) + cubocta(n - 1)
print([cubocta(i)
When introducing the concept of the REPL, and how not every language has
one, I tend to say "like a chat bot".
In other words, Python the interpreter, talking back (evaluation) is a chat
bot.
"Learn to think like the snake" I say to Grasshopper [1]. When she raises
an exception (hiss),
I did pip install this and get it working without problems.
As someone who designs curricula, I'm glad to know about it.
Using curses module, not Tk.
Kirby
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:58 AM Kent Tong wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written a small Python package (https://pypi.org/project/lineui/)
> to
Hi Al,
I'm glad you picked up on that link back to Shadowfax. I've finally picked
up on your initial A. and added that to the hyperlink [1]. I consider this
hardwiring into a sort of textbook (more like a trade book in some respects
-- what's a Jupyter Notebook by genre anyway?) and am happy to
Here's an updated link to my open source curriculum writing.
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/Home.ipynb
Pythonic High School Math one might call it, with bridges to other STEAM
topics, and thence to PATH. [1]
I introduce folks to my Notebooks using
Pythonic Math in Portland, August 2021:
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/Aug11_week_class.ipynb
Kirby
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> Hi Kirby,
> Cool stuff! Meanwhile, back at the college, I'm teaching Multivariable
> Calculus using Jupyter Notebooks with NumPy and SymPy. See my blog if you
> are interested,
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
>
>
Yes. As usual,
When I introduce OOP to high schoolers, I go straight to this word "object"
and link it with the word "thing" in the ordinary sense of the word.
Objects are not meant to be learned as an abstract computer science idea,
but as an adaptation of ordinary language, trying to make reasoning about
the
Greetings all.
Good to see some of you at the Edu Summit.
Many thank you to the organizers for allowing
me to join in the end.
Andre gave a fabulous talk on friendly, the
enhanced, multi-lingual traceback explainer.
My lightning talk came at the end. For those who
couldn't be there, I'm
I did a proposal for Pycon really early, then realized the Education Summit
was separate. Now the latter is full and closed. I'm in the Trainers'
Summit, but the Education Summit is full. Even to those of us who would
just listen on Zoom?
Oh well, good thing I turned my presentations in
Me: If I ask for type(__builtins__) I get a list of all the things
dicts can do, not the contents of the module.
Of course I should have said dir(__builtins__) above
(not type).
Anyway, I was glad to clear this up. I’m guessing
the use of both __builtin__ and __builtins__ is not
Spyder’s
Andre: I think you mean simply __builtins__, without the dir().
I was puzzled by this remark at first but now I’m seeing
why.
When I boot into the Python shell directly from bash,
and ask for the type of __builtins__ i.e. type(__builtins__),
I get back that it’s a module. Then
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 11:28 AM André Roberge
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:37 PM kirby urner wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 5:48 AM André Roberge
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> For about 20 months now, I h
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 5:48 AM André Roberge
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For about 20 months now, I have been working on a Python package intended
> to help beginners figure out what went wrong when their program generates a
> traceback. This package is called Friendly-traceback; you can find
Hi Dave --
Thank you for this excellent online course material re Python and the
geosciences.
I've added a section to my evolving "elite school" repo listing courses and
curriculum
using Jupyter Notebooks, as I want to impress upon my students that this is
how
some of the better schools /
So am I supposed to use Markdown?
[New Python Article on
Citzendium](https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language))
1-2-3 testing...
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My apologies for the broken link:
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
(the underlying URL was missing the terminal paren)
Thanks for the feedback Wes.
The Github repo is less a textbook than a “tensegrity” of web pages held
together without a specific serial
Two exhibits of possible interest:
(1) Citizendium Wiki, not unlike Wikipedia in its goals, but with less
anonymity, has a new article on Python, still a work in progress.
Comments?
They're (we're) looking for more articles with fresh up to date content, on
aspects of the Python ecosystem.
ntegration. Just pointing out how
WebGL itself is a theme here, whatever the tool stack.
Common themes in my echo chamber (silo) are 3D
rendering and animation. Python is getting stronger
in this area. Blender is Python driven. [4]
Kirby Urner
in Portland Oregon
[1] 20 years ago:
http://4dso
Greetings Sergio --
That's a beautiful example of a Flask application in that it's so simple as
a front end, yet there's serious work going on in terms of sympy and so
on. I can envision taking a "tour group" of students through your source
code, not because they're necessarily studying algebra,
Greetings from Portland, Oregon, Sergio!
I gave your invention a whirl with a random 2nd degree equation:
https://flic.kr/p/2k1Kj9v (screen shot in my Photostream)
Always glad to see sympy getting a workout. Flask front end.
Great skills combo! Cross disciplinary.
Do you share source code
Greetings Jurgis --
I'd say the answer to only-C compsci in school, or only-Java,
was the phenomenon of Code Schools, with their Bootcamps.
One discovered the short cut into industry was not a compsci
degree, but a crash course in exactly what you're saying: a
combo of py and js.
As you know es6
an update for anyone
curious about my ongoing project, which relates
to American literature (think of me as a lit prof
with some ties to the Python world [4] (or
"Python nation" as I've cast it sometimes)).
Kirby Urner
Portland, OR
[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/kirbyurner
[2] https://worldgame
Some history:
https://www.quora.com/Is-coding-the-same-as-writing-script/answer/Kirby-Urner
Is coding the same as writing script?
<https://www.quora.com/Is-coding-the-same-as-writing-script>
<https://www.quora.com/profile/Kirby-Urner>
Kirby Urner <https://www.quora.com/profile/Ki
I've taken a deep dive into Blender recently, you'd have thought earlier
maybe, but I was slow into CAD, doing my work directly in a ray tracer
(POV-Ray, also free open source).
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/blender.ipynb
Why not jump right into
Yikes. My attempt at hand-coding markdown links formatting as [word](
http://address) didn't work well at all in the HyperKitty Mailman3 view, my
apologies.
Here are the links again, in the order linked...
This thread:
I decided to try replying through the HyperKitty archived interface, where I’ve
been examining the cosmetics of [our
thread](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/edu-sig@python.org/thread/H6KKJR57V7G4CIPDPJ7FUCXWDHMRUYUT/
Thank you very much for the pull requests Wes! I got notification by
email.
They may be against a version that no longer exists, but no matter. We're
gonna poke around live on camera, starting in about 30 minutes. We go for
2.25 hours with one or two breaks.
I'm taking my campers right into my
>
>
> Try the following:
>
> from fractions import Fraction
> float(Fraction("1/3"))
>
> Knowing you, I'm sure you can figure out plenty of useful applications of
> this. :-)
>
> André
>
>
A totally excellent suggestion!
I'm going to share that, by bringing campers here on tour, saying "this is
Here's a thread I'm starting with my campers taking a PyCamp course.
Yesterday we were co-evolving a calculator driven by looping menu. It does
squares and square roots (one of the campers supplied this logic) and I was
just getting around to introducing the y^x key as some call it, i.e. any
A Python camp for teens stuck at home.
[Exhibit](https://github.com/4dsolutions/python_camp/blob/master/README.md
)
(work in progress)
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Awesome!
If you do any kind of Youtube on this specific SIR model I hope you'll link
it from the cell and share it here.
I see some Youtubes like that already (SIR models, including in Python),
but everyone codes a little differently.
I'd like to go back to high school and do it all again from
Per usual, we're awash in useful tools, many free, but so little time to
learn to use them, it seems. And they all keep evolving.
Along those lines: REPL.IT, favored by many a Python teacher, yet so
little explored by me. Like with LinkedIn and so many of these Web 2.0
tools, we get so many
Now you'll need to use math.factorial(int(Decimal)) or write your own
factorial function.
The storyline:
Apropos of recent threads experimenting with high precision (arbitrary
precision) numbers as a way to promote interest in "pure math" applications
using Python, I discovered this morning that
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:17 PM kirby urner wrote:
>
> Testing:
>
> >>> 2**200 # (that's 2 to the 200th power in Python).
>
>
The double star came out OK but the chevron is interpreted with color
containers 3-levels deep.
So beware using the Python chevron t
e through
the archive)
Kirby
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:50 PM kirby urner wrote:
> Looking back in the archive:
>
>
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/edu-sig@python.org/message/WE5WEZIMTZ7NB7FRZIPEAHLXJHQKGRKF/
>
> The rendering I get turns the double-star of Python expo
-friendliness, I wonder.
Kirby Urner
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Thank you Kent.
One of the storylines I introduce in my Python classes, to motivate a use
case project, is the just using a search engine to discover and curate
links is a waste. The internet if full of rare jewels that the engines
won't know how to rank, simply on the basis of "beaten track"
utu.be/-Snd7a55FrE
>
> I'm gonna have to do the same in python with Decimal. What about the N()
> method in SAGE and numpy?
>
> Regards,
> Al
>
> Sent from BlueMail <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=15774>
> On Feb 2, 2020, at 19:18, kirby urner wrote:
>>
>> Hi J
Hi Jorge --
I agree, it'd be interesting to apply a Riemann Sum algorithm using
arbitrary precision as the number crunching type, versus IEEE754.
Freed from FORTRAN, you would have that option. I'll do it now...
[ sometime later ]
Here's a sandbox version:
https://repl.it/@kurner/computepi
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:55 AM Wes Turner wrote:
>
>
> Are they working on Windows platforms?
> I understand that Python is in the Microsoft App Store now, but conda is
> not.
>
>
Yes. Oft times these are public school labs and I'm not in charge of what
gets installed. Always Windows and/or
Yes, I've especially used gmpy2 and met the maintainer at a user group,
worked at Mentor Graphics as I recall, and was collaborating with Alex
Martelli on getting Python such a library. Most of my Jupyter Notebooks
exploring high precision are using that. Trig built right in, and complex
More concretely, and continuing the arbitrary precision thread, one might
think Python, with its clever duck typing, could take either floating
point, or standard library Decimals, through precisely the same algorithm.
That's so in some cases, but when we get to powering, one can't use the
A lot of our archived debates centered around how we might redesign
(reform) the curriculum in light of computer languages, Python in
particular.
What I'm coming to lately is emphasizing arbitrary precision e.g. pi to
literally a thousand places, as an especially attractive feature of
computers
Granted, these two code blocks (below) are far from identical, however the
unittest idea (from JUnit) is alive and well in Rust, which should be
encouraging.
You'll need another crate (module, use cargo install) if you want
AlmostEqual type assertions for floating point work. I'm doing a lot
Thanks for those references Perry.
Would it be possible to share your notebook so I could play with that
> context manager code? I looked on your github, but did not see it:
> https://github.com/4dsolutions?tab=repositories
>
> Cheers,
> Perry
>
Here's a relevant Jupyter Notebook, not exactly
Suppose you got this question:
"I'm new to programming and heard that studying two languages, one front
burner, one back burner, is a best practice, as the benefits you get from
'compare and contrast' is like when rubbing two sticks together: you get
fire."
I've been suggesting learning Python
Shared Project Space
What I think works well is when the students in the class have their own
shared virtual classroom in which to share Python projects. These need not
be accessible to the public (people not in the class), but having real time
access to each others' projects -- those
What are the major sticking points with Jupyter on a mobile device?
>
>
Seems like the Github Jupyter rendering engine sends out CSS @media queries
to detect client format, and if your device below a specific size, the
sever sends you raw JSON instead (the notebook sans rendering).
With any art
Thank you for your contribution Claude. I have been looking at your github
site and eyeballing the source code.
You make a good point about smartphones being so different a device,
because of their small format, than even a laptop computer. Students with
only phone experience feel unprepared for
What other Python emulators offer some builtin physics?
Example startup code (no imports required):
stage.set_gravity(3)
escaped = False
stage.disable_ceiling()
stage.set_background_color("black")
b = 1
stage.set_bounce(b)
Codesters embraces turtle graphics but takes it to the next level by
Latest School of Tomorrow 5 min video, recapping some of what we've been
doing in summer school in 2019. I've done similar pilots at Reed College.
This time we're in Illinois.
https://youtu.be/5_NWt_zjdcw (Codesters again)
The kids (I have 15 on my roster) need to understand why a flight to
The Medium curators selected this one for widespread dissemination:
https://medium.com/@kirbyurner/the-calculator-of-tomorrow-39ba87763621
It's on my usual theme: giving high schoolers a more significant
experience by ditching scientific calculators in favor of "the calculator
of tomorrow".
I met only a few Pythonistas at OSCON last year. Van Lindberg and I had a
brief conversation. Naomi, will I see you there?
I've got a hallway track topic I'd like to pursue.
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2019/07/open-source-campus.html
Kirby
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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
>
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 4:12 PM Wes Turner wrote:
> Yes, my friend Gerald de Jong was a first adapter of "elastic interval
>> geometry" where every "rod" is a tension-compression spring governed by
>> mathematics. He put creatures made as tensegrities in a simulation and
>> selected for which
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:57 PM Wes Turner wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, June 23, 2019, C. Cossé wrote:
>
>> I'll bet every one of those graphing calcs has also been replicated as a
>> phone app
>>
>
>> That's cool stuff there! (yours)
>>
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> Yeah, that's really cool. Was the MoCap (motion capture)
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:40 PM C. Cossé wrote:
> Yes that must be disappointing if 'The House of Tomorrow' didn't convey or
> do justice to the content of his work.
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Oh no, it was a fine movie. Thumbs up.
I'm fully understanding that a fictional audience that has to earn its keep
in
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:31 PM C. Cossé wrote:
> I agree with everything you say, but I'm just talking about day #1 of
> algebra class ... pretty much just an inspirational show and demonstration
> that satisfying capabilities are within their reach
>
Youtube stardom awaits you. Seriously,
Another modeling activity that's fun is starting with a giant spreadsheet
(maybe a pandas DataFrame) wherein the columns are xyz coordinates of
ballerina body sensors. As we know, the movie industry uses these sensors
routinely, to bring an actor into a virtual reality (e.g. Gollum in Lord of
the
> No prior knowledge ... it's all on the teacher to be familiar enough to
> walk all over and essentially "drag them through" (the kids=them) the
> process of developing their own quick solar system model. It would be a
> good team-teaching lesson, one teacher on the white-board lecturing, and
>
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:28 AM C. Cossé wrote:
> Hi Kirby,
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> I think kids should write their own plotting routines to graph their
> functions starting anywhere 3rd-7th grade.
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If they wish to, yes, so many optional branches.
I'm coasting along using everyday office productivity tools
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 impulse buys).
This year:
I'm involved in a multi-state distance education program where I pop up as
a talking head, remotely. The kids have Chromebooks. Middle School aged.
Here's a short Youtube about that platform:
https://youtu.be/HMOkOy9pCGo?t=69
(free to sign up, the tool our school uses -- the opening minute or
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