Well, I guess the idea with this is that the feedback would be even more direct and specific. Khan Academy is trying to go that way with their exercises but I don’t know if they’re there yet.
Hmm? If I squint, I can maybe sorta see what this has to do with what I was talking about, but it seems likelier to be a misunderstanding.
Did you click through to Wolfram’s rant/read the part where I said “stop teaching kids how to take derivatives; that’s what MathematicaTM is for. Just teach them what a derivative is, so we can move on to more interesting problems.”?
This is definitely not about “use computers to teach maths as it’s usually taught!” (what Khan Academy does quite well.) This is about “let the computers do the calculating while we do the math! … I mean, the drudgery-free parts of math.”
Isn’t that what Khan Academy is for?
Well, I guess the idea with this is that the feedback would be even more direct and specific. Khan Academy is trying to go that way with their exercises but I don’t know if they’re there yet.
Hmm? If I squint, I can maybe sorta see what this has to do with what I was talking about, but it seems likelier to be a misunderstanding.
Did you click through to Wolfram’s rant/read the part where I said “stop teaching kids how to take derivatives; that’s what MathematicaTM is for. Just teach them what a derivative is, so we can move on to more interesting problems.”?
This is definitely not about “use computers to teach maths as it’s usually taught!” (what Khan Academy does quite well.) This is about “let the computers do the calculating while we do the math! … I mean, the drudgery-free parts of math.”
… I guess I need to emphasize that more.