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Now searching the Federal Register: Any incentive to create the world's largest tensegrity sculpture?

The PLATO system for so-called "programmed instruction" was available in the 1970s, IIRC. Meanwhile, math pedagogy, AFAIK, tends to more rigorous reference to "scope and sequence". These seem compatible even without AI, and if only to better identify gaps.

> 1. Algebra-based "just apply the formula" d=vt, y=v_0*t+gt^2/2.

Referring to an algebra-based physics class?

Now also move the notion "include the units and they must work out" back to intro algebra classes, and kids could have a superpower in solving word problems.

> really strange for someone to ace "honors physics" to then fail qualifications for intro calculus

Famously, there can be "plug in the numbers" physics. Zero conceptual understanding required, And then all you need to know about fractions is to "divide" that entry on the calculator.

For example, in a PSSC high-school physics course, I remember adding four or five terms when analyzing a calorimetry experiment, with no awareness of adding compatible (same units) energy-related terms.

In some ways a high-school student might be better served in a conceptual physics course, if competently taught.

Proof of Archive

So the DSN has some properties of cooperative multitasking ... what could go wrong?

> “When Artemis comes online, everybody else moves out of the way, and it’s an impact to all the science missions, even the flagship science missions," Dodd said.

> What makes CubeSats appealing to NASA and research scientists is what makes them unappealing to the Deep Space Network, Dodd said. ... "When your DSN is oversubscribed, I don't think it's a good use to put throwaway missions on the same set of antennas.

> If the next few words I’m going to write are obvious, why do I even need to write them?

Same thing chatgpt (trapped in the philosopher's Chinese room) is asking itself millions of times a day.

> you explicitly can’t leave a stack of exams and let students pick them, because it exposes students to others’ scores. Another rule is that you can’t associate a students exam with their student ID

As a comparison, at my Uni in the 1970s individual grades were posted along with corresponding social security numbers.

> those that only follow a cookie standard or accelerated curriculum are relatively unprepared for careers in mathematics

Culture-dependent? I recall the story from France of the second-grader who, asked what 2x3 equals, replied "3x2", knowing only that multiplication was commutative.

> Stop when you get to the end of your time limit

I understand this as a recommendation related to maintaining a consistent writing habit. Also, stopping in the middle of a thought provides a place to resume.