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Very cool. Just wanted to mention that we've had the same capability in the Khan Academy CS environment for a few months now: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/gea
by spicyj 14y ago
Very cool. Just wanted to mention that we've had the same capability in the Khan Academy CS environment for a few months now:
http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/gear/1178931559 http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/gear/1178931559
Read John Resig's blog post for more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382076
- Void_ 14y agoYes, playing with values and seeing the graphical result change is an excellent way of getting the intuition for taught material. I came across this example (http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics/e/exploring_mean_and_median http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics/e/exploring_mean_...) from Khan Academy that helps students understand mean and median of a data set. (There are exercises for other summary statistics too.)