[racket] Teaching logical thinking via programming in Scheme

It seems to me that Igor Rivin's major flaw in thinking shows up on page 1 as a section title. In "The Consumer" the opinion piece makes the common mistake to introduce the undergraduate student as a consumer. He is not. The undergraduate student is the product that we, the professors, consume from the US K-12 system and that we deliver to employers and graduate schools. It just so happens that Universities and Colleges make their product pay for the value-enrichment process because their product has free will and choose where to put the new-found skills to use after graduation. In turn, the product makes the future employer pay for the process of obtaining a Bachelors degree. 

But otherwise Rivin has his heart at the right place and it is worth exploiting his ideas.

-- Matthias











On Aug 3, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote:

> Yes, thanks very much for sharing this. One of my "to do" items this fall is to put together a proposal at my college to have our HtDP course fit in as one of the "mathematics" options in the general education core. Any other suggestions, tips, or publications like this paper along the lines of arguing that HtDP (or functional programming, in general) provides students rigorous mathematical foundations and useful skills (at the college level) would be much appreciated.
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> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks for pointing it out. Since the person is possibly still at Brown, I may try to contact him and see whether there is common ground. Much appreciated -- Matthias
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> On Aug 3, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
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> > Many people on this list think deeply about pedagogy; perhaps the following article published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, which advocates teaching logical thinking via Scheme programming before advancing to the usual university mathematics curriculum (calculus, etc.), may be of interest.
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> > http://www.ams.org/notices/201406/rnoti-p597.pdf
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