[...] My daughters aren’t old enough to experience the joys of algebra yet, but when they are I plan to revisit Oliver Steele’s blog for some inspired thinking on how to explain algebra visually. Steele’s post Visualizing Basic Algebra begins with line drawings representing the associative property for addition: [...]
Oliver Steele lives in Western Massachusetts and commutes to downtown LA, where he is bringing an operating system from handwaving to reality. He was the architect of OpenLaszlo, the author of PyWordNet and other open source projects. His interests include programming languages, knowledge representation, information visualization, and math education. [more]
[...] My daughters aren’t old enough to experience the joys of algebra yet, but when they are I plan to revisit Oliver Steele’s blog for some inspired thinking on how to explain algebra visually. Steele’s post Visualizing Basic Algebra begins with line drawings representing the associative property for addition: [...]