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