By the way, when do we get to see the python/algebra curriculum stuff? That’s something I could seriously get on board with.

Raise your hand if you thought I was serious with “There aren’t a lot of firsts left in your life when you’re twenty-seven.” Obviously I need to rejigger this blog’s approach to sarcasm.

I’m raising my hand on this one. You weren’t being sarcastic; you were being naive.

If you can pull this off, I’ll be super impressed, but why not use the national standards?

I’m sorry for being so negative. I just want the CA standards to be changed so badly and I hate to see your team work so hard with such a lead weight dragging you down.

I mean, how do you position “solving multistep equations” or “completing the square” as an exercise in programming? My team has come up with a lot of solutions – some more inspiring than others – but the Litvin’s have taken an alternate route and just thrown those standards out. They don’t address them.

Which, in certain cases, is exactly the right approach. But, whatever my gripes with the status quo, I have to contend with the fact that this course won’t see daylight in a public school as anything but an elective.

I bought a copy of this book: http://www.skylit.com/python/ContentsPreface.pdf

I teach Python in my high school IT classes but I’ve never been a math teacher so I find a lot of it challenging. I’m trying to get better at integrating the two and that’s why I bought the book.