Timeline for Analogy for teaching recursion
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| Jun 8, 2017 at 4:50 | comment | added | GermaneDork | I think students are surprised and fascinated to see the pattern of a recurrent arithmetic sequence emerge in nature (e.g., the Fibonacci sequence in the petals on a sunflower). I don't think this taps into any deep intuition for them. So, to say "if you want to understand recursion, just reflect on the natural processes around you that have surprising recurrent properties..." may not be helpful. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 17:02 | comment | added | Sean Houlihane | Your examples are missing a purpose. It may seem obvious, but I'm not sure the snail shell example works as well as 'fill a volume of soil with uniform root density' | |
| May 23, 2017 at 15:15 | comment | added | pluke | Hi Marc, I like these, can you expand on how you would use any of these? For example (and rather simply) the tree: for branch, if water available, grow branch, split branch in two. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 15:13 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 23, 2017 at 15:08 | history | answered | Marc Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |