Thursday, October 30, 2014

Recent Lesson Plans etc.


Fractals
Do we include these in the Common Core Standards?

NKS-oriented
New Kind of Science:  experiments with cellular automata

Modulo Arithmetic
Laying foundations for later topics

Number Bases
Included in New Math but phased out during the Great Dumbing Down

RSA
Public key crypto:  what any citizen should know about

Classic STEM
State of the art

V + F == E + 2
Attributed to Euler but did Descartes also know?

Martian Math
Looking at Earthling assumptions about area and volume through ET eyes.

More reading:

Focal Points