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From: nasa@ms.uky.edu (Eric T. Freeman)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 17 Feb 88 00:54:52 GMT
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Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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Summary: Nicholas Negroponte, Papert, Mathland etc..




>  I for one am certainly glad that I was drilled in multiplication tables and
>so on. I use them everytime I go to the SuperMarket. Of course if I was...


I think you are missing the point here...Nicholas Negroponte says what I
am thinking far better than I ever could...

   Take a six-year-old from anywhere in the world and plunk him down in
   Paris to live for a year and they'll learn French - why not create a 
   fictitious country called Mathland (in a computer) in which you could
   drop a child into and the child would learn math.

This idea was originally Seymour Papert's.  I think this type of
application would enable a child to come away knowing far more and
more importantly having a deeper understanding for math than simple drills.

		Eric Freeman

Eric Freeman
University of Kentucky Computer Science
nasa@g.ms.uky.edu
freeman@ssvs.gsc.nasa.gov