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Coming right up from the NSF, Aesthetic Computing for middle schoolers:
Number one, Singapore Math already did this, (pdf file) and they did it better. If it's a choice between bar models and "concept trees" or "candy mobiles" (see page 17) I choose bar models. Number two, I'm thinking this isn't going to catch on. It's way too complex. I think. But I'm not making any bets.
on second thought On second thought, widespread adoption of Aesthetic Computing in the middle schools would be the final knock-out punch to parents . That's going to make it tempting. all your children are belong to us
Reverend Bayes said this would happen Just found the post I wrote on Christopher's first day of Middle School. So we're not going to be revising our family mottos any time soon.
ah And here we have the Aesthetic Computing Manifesto.
Question Why is it that the kind of people who write manifestoes seem to be so NSF-fundable?
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Bitter Single Guy
I don't think the content is in the machine. Just so you know.
rescued comments Umm - doesn't this already happen? I mean, the linkage between algebraic expressions and graphs was established back in the Renaissance, wasn't it?
-TracyW I mean, the linkage between algebraic expressions and graphs was established back in the Renaissance, wasn't it? you think?
CatherineJohnson you've gotta look at it.... it looks INSANELY complicated to me, but what do I know? they've got stories about hamburgers - all kinds of bizarre & wonky stuff
- Catherine Johnson About the hamburger story . . . Check out the paragraph on page 24. "Everyday" should be two words, not one, and the writer shifts back and forth between past and present tense. I presume the paragraph is intended as an example of student writing, but why intentionally include mistakes in materials intended for use by teachers?
- Karen A
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the Comments page for this post has just disappeared - I'm coming to think that TWiki has reached an End State.... I've put the comments that were there at the bottom of this post.
Coming right up from the NSF, Aesthetic Computing for middle schoolers:
Jodee Alice Rose, a former Alachua County middle school math and art teacher, and now a National Science Foundation researcher for the program, said algebra is just too abstract for some students. She said the aesthetic approach helps students who have difficulty understanding the underlying concepts. "I think this is really going to get to the students who are more artistic-minded, who wouldn't normally like math," she said. Graphic representations are already common in geometry, where students map the results of equations to form simple graphs or complex fractal sets. However, turning the equations themselves into art is something new and requires skills similar to basic computer programming.
Number one, Singapore Math already did this, (pdf file) and they did it better. If it's a choice between bar models and "concept trees" or "candy mobiles" (see page 17) I choose bar models. Number two, I'm thinking this isn't going to catch on. It's way too complex. I think. But I'm not making any bets.
on second thought On second thought, widespread adoption of Aesthetic Computing in the middle schools would be the final knock-out punch to parents . That's going to make it tempting. all your children are belong to us
Reverend Bayes said this would happen Just found the post I wrote on Christopher's first day of Middle School. So we're not going to be revising our family mottos any time soon.
ah And here we have the Aesthetic Computing Manifesto.
Question Why is it that the kind of people who write manifestoes seem to be so NSF-fundable?
source:
Bitter Single Guy
I don't think the content is in the machine. Just so you know.
rescued comments Umm - doesn't this already happen? I mean, the linkage between algebraic expressions and graphs was established back in the Renaissance, wasn't it?
-TracyW I mean, the linkage between algebraic expressions and graphs was established back in the Renaissance, wasn't it? you think?
CatherineJohnson you've gotta look at it.... it looks INSANELY complicated to me, but what do I know? they've got stories about hamburgers - all kinds of bizarre & wonky stuff
- Catherine Johnson About the hamburger story . . . Check out the paragraph on page 24. "Everyday" should be two words, not one, and the writer shifts back and forth between past and present tense. I presume the paragraph is intended as an example of student writing, but why intentionally include mistakes in materials intended for use by teachers?
- Karen A
Back to: Main Page.