I've often wondered whether we should think of things the other way round; ie, whether secondary education in mathematics could benefit from a programming compo

I've often wondered whether we should think of things the other way round; ie, whether secondary education in mathematics could benefit from a programming component. Certainly, for my part, becoming a developer kindled an interest in some higher maths, when ten short years ago I was slogging resentfully through my A level. I now love playing around with things like Haskell, precisely because of the 'mathsiness' of it, although I'm at a disadvantage from having not pursued it further before. It seems to me that a bit of simple code could make the stuff seem more 'real' and interesting than it did to a lot of my peers back then. (And, of course, there was the whole 'try it in basic!'[0] thing in American textbooks.) [0] http://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/ http://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/