Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-17 Thread kirby urner
Wow that'd be something to have some student / faculty take advantage of the schema.org templates for sharing topics. The School Server: Do We Have One? At the college level you often get faculty / students building and tending servers of various types, and otherwise assisting in the management

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-16 Thread Wes Turner
; a python session >> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 9:59 AM >> *From:* "A Jorge Garcia" >> *To:* "kirby urner" >> *Cc:* "Sergio Rojas" , "A Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig" < >> edu-sig@python.org> >> *Sub

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-12 Thread A Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig
>from a Python session (I have found no way of doing so as we can do > >with SymPy). Like that it is like using Maxima on its own. > > > >Salut, > > > >Sergio > > > > > >a python session > >Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 9:59 AM >From

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-12 Thread Sergio Rojas
: "A Jorge Garcia" To: "kirby urner" Cc: "Sergio Rojas" , "A Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig" Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms? FYI, I dumped Graphing Calculators completely in my Multivariable Calculus class that I'm teaching right now during summer sessio

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-11 Thread A Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig
FYI, I dumped Graphing Calculators completely in my Multivariable Calculus class that I'm teaching right now during summer session at the local community college. I'm using SageCell, have a look, http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com and http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 HTH, AJG ⁣Sent from

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-11 Thread kirby urner
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Sergio Rojas 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

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-11 Thread Sergio Rojas
-sig@python.org" Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?     On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Sergio Rojas mailto:sergi...@mail.com]> wrote: Okey-dokey, Kirby. Nice exposition, including the web links. To explore this issue a bit further, how, in your view,  the Common Core State Standar

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-10 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Sergio Rojas wrote: > Okey-dokey, Kirby. Nice exposition, including the web links. > To explore this issue a bit further, how, in your view, > the Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org/) > fit in the CS call at schools? > > The standard

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-10 Thread Sergio Rojas
models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software.     Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 9:39 AM From: "kirby urner" To: "Sergio Rojas" Cc: "edu-sig@python.org" Subject: R

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-10 Thread kirby urner
Hi Sergio -- Per this article, with so many states and no national curriculum (I don't advocate for one), it's tough to generalize about US schools: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/07/americas-schools/564413/ Now, to generalize :-D The mathematics classroom was rarely also a

Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms?

2018-07-10 Thread Sergio Rojas
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Re: [Edu-sig] False alarms

2018-07-08 Thread Perry Grossman
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[Edu-sig] false alarms?

2018-07-06 Thread kirby urner
Apropos of earlier discussions that ​assignment in ​ Python is about giving names to objects, ​and ​ not putting those objects in boxes, here's a blog post raising the alarm that Python (among others) is "completely incompatible with mathematics".