Closed schanzer closed 11 months ago
Transforming the x-Axis
something more like "Logarithmic scaling"ln
and log
and I'm pretty sure we never actually explain what those functions do. I would expect us to define them, explain them, have students find some logs and natural logs by hand before letting the computer make graphs using those functions, and explain why we choose to use one v the other. - ESwealth v health -transformed (desmos)
file has two tables. points are only turned on for one of them. If someone gets curious like I did and turns the other sets of points on, we provide zero guidance as to what they're seeing when they look at both sets of points simultaneously and why we have the first table in this file in the first place. ES@schanzer I'm going to pick up with this in the am. Can you tell me why these are two separate lessons?
@flannery-denny they once were. No need to continue with them as separate lessons.
@schanzer Please have a look at transforming-data.adoc
and ask yourself whether it really needs to be written with such an unfriendly intro of garbledygook. I have been seeing an increasing amount of specialty css rules and definitions used in .adoc
files and would like to encourage you not to use that as your default. It makes it harder/more time consuming for me and Rachel to edit files you've made. And it will make onboarding anyone else much more complicated if they find themselves confronted with files like this one.
@flannery-denny aside from the easily collapsible CSS at the top of the page, can you tell me what you find unfriendly? If it's just the CSS at the top, I can move that to a separate file so you don't need to look at it.
The @font-face section is ugly as all get out and goes on for several screens! long enough that it's hard to know whether there will be anything intelligible to follow.
But the kind of thing that has actually made it time consuming to clean up files you've made recently is css like this:
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where it's effortful to decide when and when not to keep your special new formatting because I have to figure out how many times it's been applied to a file, whether it's helping or hurting edits I'm working on, and whether removing it from the spot I'm working on will break other things.
@flannery-denny thanks - knowing what the problem is makes it much easier to identify a solution. Sounds like you're concerned about three specific files from a different lesson. I'll push a commit momentarily that resolves the issue.
Thanks @schanzer. I don't necessarily need a fix in the other files. But I definitely think a fix in the file in this lesson would be worthwhile. Mostly just wanted to flag that I'm seeing more and more stuff at the top of .adoc
files and wanted it to be on your radar that, while it serves a purpose, it has an impact on other authors and should be used with that cost-benefit consideration in mind.
@flannery-denny factoring out the CSS and improving the authoring experience required a lot of learning about asciidoctor, but I think the hour was well-spent. I've pushed an update that affects transforming-axis
and transforming-data
, which I think will make you happy.
@schanzer I love the idea of using fragments
for this! What an improvement! I think that hour of learning will save gazillions of future authoring hours :)
For some reason one of the icons in transforming-axis
now says FOO
and the dotted circle is appearing as the inverse version of what it previously looked like.
@flannery-denny I want to push back on the idea that students need to practice building another column their own. This is not a learning goal for the lesson, and level of comfort they need with defining filter and build functions is very minimal. I think adding more practice for them here shifts the lesson more fully in the direction of programming, when it really should stay rooted in logarithms.
Looking for Patterns
Logarithmic Functions
... to be continued!
@retabak I've updated the exploring-countries page to fix the issues you listed. Thanks for reporting!
also need to align this with the wording used in the last section of the lesson plan
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scaling factor, we need to change the section title on graphing logarithmic models.transforming the x-axis
page to Changing the scale
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@flannery-denny I believe I've addressed all of these issues. Let me know if some of them still feel undone?
@schanzer
interpreting-log-models
that isn't referenced in the lesson plan. Is it ready for inclusion in the lesson?@flannery-denny fixed the table height. The interpretation page was a draft that never got polished, but with a little love it could easily be included! Want to take a crack at it?
@flannery-denny I've pushed solutions for all but one of your checkboxes. I don't think it's possible come up with a meaningful set of solutions for the page where students are making models of their own.
Is the lesson ready to have slides made? I feel like now all the feedback is on the workbook pages...
ready to ship once @schanzer makes slides and checks solutions
[x] the lesson point that introduces logarithmic form for equations feels very misplaced - where should this actually come into play? - RT
[x] Answer "As a class: why are these coefficients similar to one another?" - ES
[x] Make sure all pages that need to be in the workbook are
[x] Audit section overviews
Make any small changes
Check with Emmanuel if they're online and there's a big change, otherwise just go ahead and make it
TAG THIS ISSUE with any related commits
[x] Emmanuel adds annotated table showing growth