"The real purpose is to connect the fundamental moves of arithmetic with your body, so mid-level math becomes easy, and easy math becomes automatic."
These are the insights at the heart of Papert & Solomon's writings on LOGO and runs through Papert's larger works (Mindstorms, The Children's Machine)
I brought abacii into my CS classroom last week as a concrete example of a format / syntax. I've picked it up a half dozen more times since that first lesson because, once the semantic concept of the abacii is accessible in student's heads, it's a really convenient simile target for many cs concepts. Pass by Value/Reference / Object is a fun demonstration if you have a visually distinct set of abacii!
"The real purpose is to connect the fundamental moves of arithmetic with your body, so mid-level math becomes easy, and easy math becomes automatic."
These are the insights at the heart of Papert & Solomon's writings on LOGO and runs through Papert's larger works (Mindstorms, The Children's Machine)
I brought abacii into my CS classroom last week as a concrete example of a format / syntax. I've picked it up a half dozen more times since that first lesson because, once the semantic concept of the abacii is accessible in student's heads, it's a really convenient simile target for many cs concepts. Pass by Value/Reference / Object is a fun demonstration if you have a visually distinct set of abacii!