[Linux-aus] Re: High school computing texts

[Paul Shirren]

Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
 >> If it's such an important part of maths then why don't you *teach it in
 >> maths*?
 >
 > That is exactly what I am advocating.  Has that been done?  Or do your
 > schools do what a lot of schools do today, give them a calculator at an
 > age when they have no real understanding?
 >
 >> FWIW I read the story in the link, and it seems to me that the maths
 >> curriculum in NSW is better than wherever you were.
 >
 > Perhaps the "maths" curriculum in NSW is better than the one in Harford,
 > Ct. USA in the 1970s, but the fact that you are all talking about the

In South Australia in the 1970s, Mr Ward taught my year 3/4 primary 
class to count and add in trinary and convert back and forth to decimal. 
We also learnt about sets, intersections and unions. I think it was 
called "new maths" and was frowned upon by people at the time.