{"id":9102,"date":"2010-11-18T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/18\/teaching-kids-real-math-with-c\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:05:22","slug":"teaching-kids-real-math-with-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/teaching-kids-real-math-with-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching kids real math with computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity&#8217;s most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach &#8212; calculation by hand &#8212; isn&#8217;t just tedious, it&#8217;s mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ConradWolfram_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ConradWolfram-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1007&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers;year=2010;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=how_we_learn;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity&#8217;s most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach &#8212; calculation by hand &#8212; isn&#8217;t just tedious, it&#8217;s mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/teaching-kids-real-math-with-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching kids real math with computers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2mO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}