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Making Science and Math Kid Friendly?
mtspim asks: "I work for a non-profit organization that creates interactive math and science curriculum materials for kids and their instructors. Even though we have seen kids learn difficult topic more easily by using a computational approach to learning, most instructors are reluctant to introduce these new ways of thinking into their curriculum. What do Slashdot users think are the best ways to help revitalize math and science programs in our schools, or should we stick to the old conventional methods to learning?"
Sock Puppet 1: "Hello there, Mr. Function. How are you doing today?"
Sock Puppet 2: "Not so good... I'm kind of scared."
1: "Why is that?"
2: "Well, I've heard that there's a derive operator running around here somewhere."
1: "Oh, is that so?"
2: "Yes, and I'm just a constant function, if anyone derives me, I'm zero!"
1: "Ha! But I don't have to worry about that!"
2: "Why not?"
1: "I'm the exponential function e^x. You can derive me all you want, it doesn't hurt me at all!"
Sock Puppet 3: "Hello there. I'm the partial derivative with respect to y!"
If a teacher can't teach up to a standard, then they should be removed.
Under the current conditions, we won't have any teachers left. We might just have to outsource our kids to India for them to get a decent education.
What?
You are downloading some torren and you have leeched 764 megabytes and seeded 432.
How many megabytes before it's even?
What are your leech/seed ratio?
Talk about buzz kill.
Those that _want_ to learn science and math.
Screw the rest - they can go into management.