"All the Real Math To Which School (Including College) Refused Yo u Access."

[Alan Kay]

Thanks John --

It would be great if you could list the "language stuff" that causes 
the glazing. Do you mean terms like "vectors"? What other terms are 
offputting?  One of the reasons this stuff works so well with the 
kids is that they just do the models, we don't employ terminology 
with them.

Cheers,

Alan

At 8:29 PM -0400 4/16/03, John Voiklis wrote:
>While I did not ask the original question, I thank you, Alan, for these
>helpful hints to the pendulum problem.
>
>Getting back to the imagined book in the subject line and my earlier
>question about whether such a resource exists: the reaction I have gotten
>from all the people with whom I have shared this problem and the hints is
>that they can understand the concepts but not the terminology...at least in
>this instance, it is the language that makes their eyes glaze over. I don't
>present this as a criticism, but, as someone concerned with explaining such
>things to people, it is definitely an important observation; one at least
>that I should keep in mind.
>
>Best,
>
>John


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