Martian Math and Synergetics
A recently completed summer school math course at Reed College, offered through Oregon's Saturday Academy, featured quite a bit of Buckaroo (sounds down-under). The name of this course: Martian Math. The idea: students chose from along a time line, and learned different lore and skills from different eras. Martian Math is from the future.
Links:
http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2102469&tstart=0
http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html
http://wikieducator.org/Martian_Math
http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/af25228...
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-martian-math.html
The attachments below are from Notes for Teachers where I get into the nitty gritty of tetrahedral mensuration, per the Wikipedia article on Synergetics. Takes some getting used to, but well worth the effort.
Kirby Urner
Autobio:
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner/Autobio
c.v.
http://grunch.net/kirby-urner
