{"id":8742,"date":"2011-05-19T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T08:00:26","slug":"a-project-not-requiring-japanese-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8742","title":{"rendered":"A Project not Requiring Japanese Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kill Math<\/a><\/p>\n

A project investigating a different way to present math and manipulate mathematical information, leveraging today’s technology.<\/p>\n

The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols.
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\nWe are no longer constrained by pencil and paper. The symbolic shuffle should no longer be taken for granted as the fundamental mechanism for understanding quantity and change. Math needs a new interface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The site contains an interesting premise \u2014 the problems with math instruction aren’t limited to the methodology (a problem pointed out in any number of Vi Hart videos<\/a>), but also the material itself:<\/p>\n

school math is useless, kills inspiration and curiosity, is mind-numbingly tedious, makes no connections to anything, and is forgotten immediately after the test. It’s all negative. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which is also often true of science instruction.<\/p>\n

Make sure not to miss<\/p>\n

\u2014 The animations in the section “A Possibly Embarrassing Personal Anecdote,” which are pretty neat \u2014 as visualization of the integral, but also an intriguing visualization of an equation<\/p>\n

\u2014 The video Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System<\/a>, which shows a model of a predator-prey system and the ways one can manipulate the equations to visualize how the variables behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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