[IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

> Which brings us back to the
> point that symbolism is not the same as algebra.
> Maria Droujkova

Maria,
Can you please expand that point

Lemke would, I think, argue that mathematics is a set of symbols for communicating with and thinking with

http://www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/page500.html
METAMEDIA LITERACY: TRANSFORMING MEANINGS AND MEDIA

one that is not typological like language but topological, a symbolic system for describing variation and relationship?

Tony