Squeak for teaching mathematics at high school / collage

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Aug 5 10:02:58 UTC 2004


Hi christian

I'm writing books to teach programming to novices at the 
college/high-school level
(11 to 16 years). You can find more information (drafts of books...)
on my web page: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/

Contact-me off list if you want to know more.

Stef

On 4 août 04, at 14:14, Christian wrote:

> I am writing my main subject in informatics at the University of
> Oslo/Norway.
>> From time to time I have been stand-in teacher in mathematics at high 
>> school
> myself.
>
> My treatise has the subject interactive use of computer as aid in
> education/teaching mathematics (in high school). I want to look at 
> Squeak,
> and try to find out to what extent it could be suitable for use in
> mathematics in high school (in Norway the sixth forms of comprehensive
> school/collage)
>
> I apply to the Squeak mailing list for advice and information:
> Has anyone used Squeak for teaching mathematics at high school / 
> collage?
> (Arranged their lessons in mathematics with Squeak in mind)
>
> One interesting question for me to discuss is also whether Squeak not 
> only
> could be useful to learn mathematics in general (as for example to
> understand many phenomena in nature), but also to look at possible 
> concrete
> use for syllabus of mathematics in high school / collage.
>
> If someone has experience here: Is there any subject in mathematics 
> that are
> more easily consistent/compatible with Squeak ?
> Maybe in calculation of probability?
>
> I will be more than thankful for any help.
>
> Best regards, and sunshine from Norway
> Christian Kloumann
> ck at ifi.uio.no
>
>
>




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