Re: LOGO-L> Questions and problems

[Chuck Shavit <CShavit@MagicSquare.com>]

At 04:25 PM 11/23/97 +0930, Bill Kerr KERRB@Magill.UniSA.edu.au wrote:
>From: Chuck Shavit <CShavit@MagicSquare.com>
>>And I think that teaching computer programming to kids is a *very*
>>important end in itself.  We don't typically try to teach math to student
>>at Biology class.  Why should we teach them math at programming class?
>
>well, its unavoidable, but I also see integrated curriculum as desirable 
>because its more natural way to learn.
>
>-- Bill Kerr

I agree.  Young students of computer programming might need extra math
tools in order to develop certain kinds of programs, and these tools could
be given to them as part of a computer programming class.  The same is true
in other subjects (for example, many years ago in 8-th grade, we learned
about the sine function in Physics class several weeks before we started
trig in Math; It was needed in order to explain some concepts in Optics).
I just do not belong to the school of thought saying that computers (and
Logo in inparticular) are effective vehicles for teaching math.

Chuck Shavit
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