🚀 go-pugleaf

>Is this group for high school math teachers?  If so, are their any of you
>out there?
>Or is this list just dead?

This list has not been very active in quite a while. But there's no reason
for it to stay that way. I had forgotten that I had subscibed to this list a
long time ago. Thanks for the reminder.

I am lucky enough to teach at a Secondary (Gr 8-12) school in Burnaby where
it will be some years before we fully exploit the available technology
resources. It includes a fibre optic cable backbone for Computer and Video
netowrks and the 400+ computers in every classroom and in several labs are
running OS/2.

Every one of the 11 math teachers in the school use the Math Computer Lab on
a regular basis. To push the limits a little further I am running a locally
developed elective mathematics course called Experimental Mathematics 11. I
got the idea from the new Centre for Experimental and Constructive
Mathematics at Simon Fraser Univiersity. The idea is to use the computer as
the tool in a Mathematics Laboratory and treat mathematics as an
experimental science. All students are taking this course as an elective in
addition to their regular mathematics class which, for the students in the
class this year ranges from Intro Math through Math 10 hons through to AP
Calculus. The range of abilities is not proving to be a problem since eachs
students tackles the investigation at his or her level.

  Jim Swift                                             Haraka,
  Burnaby South 2000 Secondary School                   haraka,
  5455 Rumble St., Burnaby BC                           hyini
  Canada   V5J 2B7   (604) 664-8560 ext 1201            Baraka