Re: What's "Developmentally Appropriate"? (Amy's world)

[Tom Wayburn <twayburn@WT.NET>]

Dear Mssrs.,


Double wow!  We thank you humbly for all your contributions to this most
crucial 'thread'.  Long live this thread!


Yours truly,
Amy and Tom Wayburn
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At 12:49 PM 10/11/2003 -0500, Jack, you wrote

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Richard Hake wrote:

> Alan Kay wrote (quoted by permission...):
> > I have observed a very
> > talented 1st grade teacher - Julia Nishijima - teach the deep ideas
> > of the differential and integral calculus to her 6 year olds with
> > 100% success.
>
>
>         Wow!  Does anyone know what "success" means in this context?
>
>                         Regards,
>                                 Jack

I speculate that "success" in teaching deep ideas of calculus by
additive
examples, means that a six year old would be able to
identify a situation where a small increase in one variable
is associated with a small change in a matched variable
in a named ratio, and that the sum of the values of a matched variable
can be counted between boundaries specified in a given variable that
is associated with the counted variable.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!