Re: Learning binary numbers

2009-08-26 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi Marty, thanks a lot for your reply. I was really interested in whether the lesson would work with you. I had the pleasure to teach the binary arithmetic to kids in summer school camps, in the grammar school and to university students as well. Some kids/students got it quite easily some did

Re: Learning binary numbers

2009-08-26 Thread m.a.
: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:10 AM Subject: Re: Learning binary numbers Hi Marty, thanks a lot for your reply. I was really interested in whether the lesson would work with you. I had the pleasure to teach the binary arithmetic to kids in summer school camps, in the grammar school

Re: Learning binary numbers

2009-08-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Aug 2009, at 13:10, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: So if you have said that you got hooked-up to math by that socratic method... Bruno would definitely took the hint in his seveth step serii. I appreciate very much the Socratic method, and I apply it as much as possible. The UDA itself

Re: Learning binary numbers

2009-08-24 Thread m.a.
Mirek, My previous answer to your question was glib and evasive, I apologize for that, but I think your question was misleading as well. In an attempt to be kind, you asked my opinion, from a pedagogical POV, of a lesson designed to make binary arithmetic simple enough for