Saturday, November 10, 2007

What do these competencies mean for grades 6-12?

Mathematical questions - what skills do we need to teach in schools?
Present concept of modeling to K-12 students such as cause and effect
Present computational science concepts to grades 6-12 students

Panoff: Language of computational science is fractions, percents, reading and interpreting graphs

**** importance of reasoning and computational thinking in schools
without this understanding, computational science is nothing!

In SC, you see powerful problem solving machines; "All the preparation work to be done is to be done by people who sit in your classrooms"

Do different disciplines define computational science?
No, different scientists work on different problems; vocabs are different (That's all)

Algorithm:
In addition to IO, should we add SQL?
Parallel programming:
Where do we learn?
Not widely taught yet.

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