[math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 32

[Stephen Jacobs]

RIT is working with Strong on these projects.  I have a long standing  
relationship with the folks that run the museum.  I'm sure RIT and  
strong press folks would be happy to put something together with  
Fedora on something like that

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On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:00 AM, fourthgrademath- 
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>   1. RIT Honors Seminar Sessions logistics (Frederick Grose)
>   2. Re: RIT Honors Seminar Sessions logistics (Mel Chua)
>   3. Hi (Edward Cherlin)
>   4. "Reform Math" Article (Karlie Robinson)
>   5. Re: Hi (Karlie Robinson)
>   6. Re: Was Press - Events.  Now an Idea (Karsten Wade)
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:42:10 -0400
> From: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> Subject: [math4] RIT Honors Seminar Sessions logistics
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> A few of infrastructure questions:
>
>   1. Is there a meeting logging robot available on
> irc.freenode.net#fedora-olpc ?
>   2. Is there a specific voice conference line or VOIP channel  
> available
>   and preferred?
>   3. How do we access any of the above?
>
> Thanks!         --Fred
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Professors Stephen Jacobs and Eric Grace held the 2nd of 10 weekly
>> sessions for the
>> RIT Honors Seminar, Developing for the OLPC XO,
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO 
>> .
>>
>> The 19 students present received, and checked out the XO laptop and
>> got a bit more oriented
>> to the seminar plans.  Weeks 1 - 5 will focus on research and
>> brainstorming on the project domain.
>> Weeks 6 - 10 will consist of prototype building and breaking.
>>
>> Slightly edited session notes from the irc.freenode.net #fedora-olpc
>> channel are at,
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar%2C_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO/20_March_2009
>> .
>> (They are a bit sparse, due to the content and my inexperience.)
>>
>> With only 3 weeks left for the research and preliminary brainstorming
>> design phase of the seminar,
>> we hope that the those interested will latch onto student posts and
>> ideas as they appear online.
>> Students also are expected to find online collaborators.
>>
>> Please make an effort to join irc.freenode.net #fedora-olpc next at
>> 10:00 - 11:50 EDT (14:00 - 15:50 UTC)
>> on Friday 27 March 2009.  (I'll post a Google Calendar invitation to
>> the group, for those that keep electronic
>> calendars.)  The seminar will reserve some time for individual and
>> collective irc communications.
>>
>> The professors may post a more detailed agenda in the coming week to
>> help narrow the time for you tune in.
>>
>> Thanks for volunteering!
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:55:43 -0400
> From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com>
> Subject: Re: [math4] RIT Honors Seminar Sessions logistics
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
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>>   1. Is there a meeting logging robot available on irc.freenode.net
>>      <http://irc.freenode.net> #fedora-olpc ?
>
> If not, http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot has worked great for OLPC and
> Sugar Labs meetings. See http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/ for output.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:55:43 -0700
> From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: [math4] Hi
> To: fourthgrademath at lists.sugarlabs.org
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> I just signed up for this list. First, I should mention the Earth
> Treasury Digital Textbook project,
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks
>
> Second, I and others at Earth Treasury have begun work on software for
> learning math at various grade levels, so we will have various
> projects to share with you. Computers for education goes back a long
> way for me, to when I first heard of O. K. Moore's Edison Talking
> Typewriter project for teaching two-year-olds to read and write.
>
> My personal project is creating some new versions of Turtle Art to
> teach various parts of math and Computer Science. It takes a little
> bit of understanding of Sugar programming and packaging, a little bit
> of Python, and a little bit of Inkscape to make each version. So far I
> know how to do Euclidean plane geometry, plane analytic geometry, a
> little group theory, and how to build a toy Turing machine in Turtle
> Art with the addition of just one or two tiles each. Turtle Art
> programming is constructing trees, not writing code. Most programming
> languages work by translating code to a parse tree for execution or
> compiling to machine language. Using a language-independent
> representation of programs has many advantages.
>
> Walter Bender is similarly extending Turtle Art for other purposes.
>
> I'll go invite some people to join us.
>
> -- 
> Silent Thunder (??/???????????????/????????????? ?) is my name
> And Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
> http://earthtreasury.net/ (Edward Mokurai Cherlin)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:16:55 -0400
> From: Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson at webpath.net>
> Subject: [math4] "Reform Math" Article
> To: FourthGradeMath at lists.sugarlabs.org
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> Perhaps the article below will help our group?
>
> "Greece school district to drop 'reform math' program in elementary
> schools" From the Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle
>
> http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090323/NEWS01/903230335&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL
> <http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090323/NEWS01/903230335&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL 
> >
>
> I'm not saying there's a right or wrong side to the issue of teaching
> math, I'm simply pointing out that there are strong opinions when it
> comes to educating children.
>
> It also goes on to say that the issues aren't always clear.  Is it the
> program itself that's flawed?  Is it a result of teacher training?  Is
> it actually flawed when the students in the district did better than  
> NY
> State average?
>
> Anyway, food for thought on a Monday morning.
>
> ~Karlie
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:42:34 -0400
> From: Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson at webpath.net>
> Subject: Re: [math4] Hi
> To: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
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> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> I'll go invite some people to join us.
>>
>>
> Excellent!
>
> Welcome aboard
>
> ~Karlie
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:40:07 -0700
> From: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [math4] Was Press - Events.  Now an Idea
> To: fourthgrademath at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Cc: pfrields at redhat.com
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:59:12AM -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote:
>> The better you get to know me, the less you'll question how my brain
>> works... Now on with the show....
>>
>> First - Reading yesterday's news I spot this article -
>> http://www.rbj.net/fullarticle.cfm?sdid=77550 "Strong Museum unveils
>> center for electronic games"
>>
>> Second - While Strong is the "National Museum of Play," they are
>> primarily an American History Museum and the largest Children's  
>> Museum
>> in the US.
>>
>> Third - The XO was conceived by an American (Negroponte) and it's
>> primary function is a tool for children.
>>
>> the idea - what if we donate an XO to Strong at the April Rochester  
>> OLPC
>> SIG meeting on behalf of all of us?  This gives us a stronger news  
>> hook
>> than our standard geekery.
>>
>> Points would be -
>> The collection at Strong isn't complete without an XO
>> The work being done in Rochester for the OLPC effort as a whole
>> The ties between OLPC, SugarLabs, Fedora, RIT and the world wide
>> community and how the last two points define Rochester as an  
>> epicenter
>> for Math4 with ripples being felt world wide
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> No brain confusion for me, makes good sense.  I'm Cc:'ing Paul
> W. Frields on this one, he has a lot of experience now working with
> Red Hat's press people; perhaps they can act as a leg to get the press
> attention, too.
>
> - Karsten
> -- 
> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
> http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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