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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level?
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Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 12:27:03 EST
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> From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia)

> One problem that had arisen is that there are, to my knowledge, no
> books on mathematical logic or descrete math written with a high school
> student in mind that is currently in print.  The book that we used
> had been out of print since 1964; the teacher bought his own copies,
> and we were not allowed to take them out of class.

I had a pretty good high school mathematics curriculum emphasizing discrete
math and logic.  The texts used were part of the Unified Modern Mathematics
series.  I don't remember offhand who wrote them but if there are any Stuy-
vesant High School alumni who went through the Unified Modern Mathematics
program I'm sure one of them will remember.

Various subjects were covered that are applicable to a high school student's
training for computer science.  Among them were elementary number theory,
groups, fields and rings, boolean algebra and set theory.  When I was in high
school I found it to be very challenging and exciting -- having that mathe-
matics helped me to choose computer science as a major in college.
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