<div dir="ltr">Don Cohen, the Mathman, has a program that begins with teaching 7-year-olds calculus in depth, starting with the ideas rather than the symbols and manipulations. He and I are discussing turning his materials into Sugar activities. Would anybody be interested in helping with development, QA, field testing, localization, and so on? We are thinking of using Smalltalk for this project, but we are open to Python. <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maria Droujkova <<a href="mailto:droujkova@gmail.com">droujkova@gmail.com</a>> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 18:14 Subject: [Math 2.0] Don Cohen "The Mathman": Calculus by and for Young People, live event Wednesday 9:30pm ET To: <a href="mailto:naturalmath@googlegroups.com">naturalmath@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:mathfuture@googlegroups.com">mathfuture@googlegroups.com</a> <h1>Calculus By and For Young People</h1> <img src="" alt="Don_Cohen_shell_head.jpg" title="Don_Cohen_shell_head.jpg"> During the event, Don Cohen-The Mathman will have participants graphing things they have never done before and understand what graphing an equation or function means. He will show how to use his latest creation- A Map to Calculus, originally just a poster, but with the help of a former student Jonathan Storm, is now clickable! Each spot on the Map links to his student's work and sample problems from his books. We can also ask Don questions about his past and present work with students ages four and up, his books, and his books that were translated into Japanese and sold in Japan. <h2><a name="12a3a05dc263a587_Calculus By and For Young People-Login"></a>Login</h2> All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here:<a href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events" target="_blank">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events</a> Wednesday, August 4th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 6:30pm Pacific - 9:30pm Eastern time. <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2010&hour=21&min=30&sec=0&p1=207" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WorldClock for your time zone</a>. <table> <tbody><tr> <td><h2><a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="webinar_buttons.png" title="webinar_buttons.png"></a></h2> </td> <td>To join: <ul><li>Follow this link: <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></li><li>Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the "Login" button</li><li>You will find yourself in a virtual room. An organizer will be there to greet you, starting about half an hour before the event.</li></ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> If this is your first Elluminate event, consider coming a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event. <h2><a name="12a3a05dc263a587_Calculus By and For Young People-Agenda"></a>Agenda</h2> Graphing (Cartesian & complex plane, polar, parametric and 3D) and its interrelation to algebra, arithmetic, functions, empirically determined functions, iteration, geometry, geometric transformations with matrices, infinite series, infinite sequences, complex numbers, derivatives, integrals, math in nature, math in science, use of applets, and hands-on, as done by Don with students ages 4- to 73- using Don's <a href="http://www.mathman.biz/html/map.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Map to Calculus</a>, as the base. Don expects to learn something and get enjoyment from, the questions and graphs the participants will make, as he does with children. He will show how the Map can be used to help students, parents, teachers and teachers of teachers. Participants will also see how a 4 yo walked to the points for x+y=5 on his kitchen floor, to seeing the points of inflection of a function by graphing the function and the 1st and 2nd derivatives on one graph, and get the area under curves to get the integral by Don's plotting points on a calculator. <h2><a name="12a3a05dc263a587_Calculus By and For Young People-Event Host"></a>Event Host</h2> <img src="" alt="Don-Cohen.jpg" title="Don-Cohen.jpg" style="min-height: 338px; width: 480px;" align="left"> Donald Cohen has been teaching math for 56 years. He has taught in Junior HS, college, worked with Dr. Robert B. Davis for about 15 years with The Madison Project training teachers, and developed student lessons on PLATO, a computer-based program at the U of Illinois. He co-founded and taught in The Math Program, a private program, tutoring children since 1976. Some exciting things that have happened since then: He and his partner, Jerry Glynn, have small groups of students after school; this gave them time to work together on mathematics, on how kids learn, and on sharing with the world some things they enjoy doing. Jerry has written two books, on Derive and Mathematica. In 1988, Don wrote and published his book "Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up)" which was reviewed in the Dec.'88 issue of Scientific American, among others, and then made 2 videotapes, a book "Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets", and a book "Changing Shapes with Matrices",and "A Map to Calculus"-- all under the name of Don Cohen-The Mathman. The Japanese translation of his book "Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up)" was published by Kodansha Ltd., in August 1998; they sold over 30,000 copies in 10 years! Don's book "Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets" was put on a CD-ROM in Japanese and English, published by Mr. Hiroshi Takimoto. Don's book "Changing Shapes With Matrices" was also published in Japanese by Kodansha, Ltd. All Don's work is now on a 2-CD set. In 2008 Don was the recipient of The Excellence in Education Award given by the Alumni Association of the SUNY at Albany (see the picture above). Besides his local students, he has taught students by email and IM around the world. He has had 3 children and one Juku teacher who came from Japan, and many within the US, to work with him. Don's wife Marilyn, of ~58 years, continues to be his biggest supporter and only love. They have 4 fine sons, 8 wonderful grandchildren and 3 terrific greatgrandchildren. Don feels very fortunate to have worked with and affected so many youngsters, - and their children, in a very positive, successful, and enjoyable way. Don's keys: Look for patterns, Learn to learn, Visualization (graph and picture everything) "Learning, Living and Loving mathematics.."- the core of Don's teaching and books, observed by Seth Nielsen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MathFuture" group. To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:mathfuture@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">mathfuture@googlegroups.com</a>. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:mathfuture%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">mathfuture+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>. For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture?hl=en</a>. </div> -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. <a href="http://www.earthtreasury.org/">http://www.earthtreasury.org/</a> </div>