25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
7:55 p.m.
At 03:22 PM 10/25/2007, Marc LeBrun wrote:
I haven't ever attempted anything like this under radio constraints, but I *did* manage to convey some of these ideas successfully to my kids' classes (as an guest "enrichment" speaker) when they were in kindergarten through about third grade, so it's plausibly do-able... perhaps even for adults!
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But always front-load with dramatic hooks--"There's actually a proof that there are true things that can't be proved!"--to motivate any exposition.
Marc: I'd be _really_ interested if you came up with a way to describe Goedel's Incompleteness to a 3rd grader or a kindergartener! :-) :-) Perhaps you have a little Euler or Gauss or Russell in the classroom ?