http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A small magic square game, just a step beyond addition. Comments welcome. http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=19 I have a text book in front of me, seems to be specific to a school called Kensri in Hebbal, Bangalore, so not sure about other schools. On the cover, it says "Computer Technology". This text book is best described as a user manual for MS Paint. Each page describes ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=17 I am attempting to locate text books used in CBSE and ISC. In an excellent initiative, the NCERT (National center for education and research in teaching, India) has brought online its CBSE text books. Just to make my task difficult, the only text books that are missing are for ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=14 Based on nothing more than gut feel, I have strongly recommended, to anyone who has made the mistake of asking for my opinion, against taking up computer science as a subject in higher secondary school (11th and 12th standard). I am now taking up a scientific approach to evaluate ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=9 We have all seen the moon and its phases many many times. Now imagine trying to figure out answers to questions like: What time does a full moon rise/set: mental imagery might just work here. On your way to work two hours after sunrise, you ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=8 Scratch from the MIT media lab is a neat workbench to create interactive movies via visual programming. You can create cartoons and associate a program with each cartoon. This program is not written but assembled form visual blocks (here is an example). ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=7 How do you teach a 7 year old to subtract? My attempt at learning flash and also understanding the psychology of a 7yr old. Tried to make it fun/colorful, relate to situations that are very familiar in daily life, provide some adrelanine rushes, some instant gratification via bells and ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=6 We have an interesting situation emerging in India. Lets take school education first. Hundreds of thousands of people take college entrance exams each year. This mad rush to get into good colleges has created tremendous amounts of pressure on middle and high schoolers. Cashing in on this demand is ... http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=4 We will start with pythagoras theorem: [tex]\alpha^2+\beta^2 = \gamma^2 [/tex] I also want to try some inline variables [tex]\alpha[/tex] to see how this appears. We have to write some long sentences to see how they wrap. This is how we draw a triangle. Let me now try to embed flash: [flash  http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/gof/ramesh/flash/subtraction/myproject.swf] http://www.houseofalgorithms.org/wordpress/?p=1