Re: Mathematica for gifted elementary school children
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- Subject: [mg98953] Re: [mg98863] Mathematica for gifted elementary school children
- From: "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:14:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Gothenburg
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Try with http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/topics.html and check what is attracting his interest. For the really interested kid this could be a treasure of gold. (Other kids might find it frustrating and boring to death.) Unfortunately my own kids were too "grown-up" when this site appeared, but there is still hope for my grandson. I would appreciate to hear about the reaction of your son to this site. Best regards Ingolf Dahl ingolf.dahl at telia.com -----Original Message----- From: Beliavsky [mailto:beliavsky at aol.com] Sent: den 21 april 2009 01:10 To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg98953] [mg98863] Mathematica for gifted elementary school children My son, almost 6, is good at math and inquisitive. Is there a math curriculum for elementary school children that uses Mathematica? He understands the four arithemetic operations and the concept of powers. I have Mathematica installed on my home PC and could teach him myself. I have written computer programs in Fortran in front of him to demonstrate concepts such as cubes and cube roots. We had fun, but I don't want to explain right now why 1000000000**3 gives -402653184 or 1/2 gives 0. He is interested in the number "centillion" (10^303) and thought it was cool to see the 101 zeros when we asked Mathematica to compute centillion^(1/3). I see there are some math courseware at http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Courseware/Mathematics/ , but those topics are too advanced for him at present. Maybe I should give him Wolfram's huge book and let him play when he wants.
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- Mathematica for gifted elementary school children
- From: Beliavsky <beliavsky@aol.com>
- Mathematica for gifted elementary school children