obviously the kid's not enjoying programming; they don't have a bottle of liquid happiness! (this is a joke, don't give your kid alcohol pls) — dn3s3 hours ago
BTW do you think adding feeds from some other sites (based on tags related to the topic of the site) would be a useful thing for this chatroom? I have made similar suggestion on hsm meta: Feeds for suitable questions from other sites in chat?
If so, we might be interested in doing some sort of cross-feed exchange with matheducators, because we definitely have questions that fit their area of expertise, and they definitely have questions that fit ours
I wonder how many "mathematics" instructors get stuck with a class, or two, in basic computer science because, as Admin says, computers are based on math. Aren't they?
@thesecretmaster No issue for me, unless it gets to be too much to follow.
@BenI. Likely it differs by state in the US. Some states are stricter about qualifications. But new teachers, whatever their training have issues they have never seen. It isn't about the content.
But a lot of APCS instructors are really not qualified for that. One or two days ahead on the syllabus.
@BenI. In my old HS (long ago and far away) the basketball-golf coach taught math.
I don't know what he studied in college. But I suspect a math minor would have been enough.
BTW, there are college majors (and major departments) in Math Education. I don't know of any in CS Education, but there are probably a few. A Math Ed major studies pedagogy. Usually combined with a math minor, I think. (Major = ~50 units (semester hours), Minor about half of that). 1 unit = about 15 hours of instruction.
The pedagogy in math ed is mostly directed at youngsters, also.
My lack of interest is not the same as an objection. If a few others are interested in such a feed, or set of feeds, I don't think it's a problem to have them here. As an alternative, if the size of the feeds does get out of hand, a side-room can be made for them.