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From the Ted Talk by Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs

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So let me end with just a few words about applications that we've found for this. And you can go to our website, the applets are all free; they just run in the browser. Anybody in the world can use them. The National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in cniptoumg program recently awarded us a grant to make a pglbroammare version of these design tools, so hopefully in three years, anybody'll be able to go on the Web and create their own stnailouims and their own artifacts. We've focused in the U.S. on African-American students as well as Native aiceramn and Latino. We've found statistically significant improvement with children using this software in a mathematics class in cmosiaorpn with a control group that did not have the software. So it's really very successful teaching cerhldin that they have a heritage that's about mathematics, that it's not just about singing and dancing. We've started a polit program in gahna. We got a small seed grant, just to see if folks would be willing to work with us on this; we're very exetcid about the future possibilities for that.

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So let me end with just a few words about applications that we've found for this. And you can go to our website, the applets are all free; they just run in the browser. Anybody in the world can use them. The National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in _________ program recently awarded us a grant to make a ____________ version of these design tools, so hopefully in three years, anybody'll be able to go on the Web and create their own ___________ and their own artifacts. We've focused in the U.S. on African-American students as well as Native ________ and Latino. We've found statistically significant improvement with children using this software in a mathematics class in __________ with a control group that did not have the software. So it's really very successful teaching ________ that they have a heritage that's about mathematics, that it's not just about singing and dancing. We've started a _____ program in _____. We got a small seed grant, just to see if folks would be willing to work with us on this; we're very _______ about the future possibilities for that.

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So let me end with just a few words about applications that we've found for this. And you can go to our website, the applets are all free; they just run in the browser. Anybody in the world can use them. The National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in Computing program recently awarded us a grant to make a programmable version of these design tools, so hopefully in three years, anybody'll be able to go on the Web and create their own simulations and their own artifacts. We've focused in the U.S. on African-American students as well as Native American and Latino. We've found statistically significant improvement with children using this software in a mathematics class in comparison with a control group that did not have the software. So it's really very successful teaching children that they have a heritage that's about mathematics, that it's not just about singing and dancing. We've started a pilot program in Ghana. We got a small seed grant, just to see if folks would be willing to work with us on this; we're very excited about the future possibilities for that.

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