Mathematical Brouhaha
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Find What You Love. Do More of That.
Christopher Danielson suggests that the best thing we can do as teachers it to....HERE.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Looking at Old Things in New Ways
Don Steward's Blog Median provides an impressive array of problems and tasks that are unique and can serve as a starting point for many different activities. He has the unique ability to ask old questions in new ways.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Mash-Up - Instructional Routines and Ambitious Teaching
Let's start here:
What kinds of math teaching is best? Apparently, it's ambitious, inquiry-oriented teaching: https://t.co/UtVtfTPJX2— Dylan Wiliam (@dylanwiliam) November 23, 2015
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Mash-Up - The Math Wars Writ Small
Let's begin with this tweet:
Hacker's original editorial Is Algebra Necessary?
Devlin's response on at The Huffington Post
And a Hacker interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education.
We don't need mathematical thinking? Really?
Edit: Another article about The Math Myth
And the referenced article critiquing the book The Math Myth by Andrew Hacker. Devlin makes the point that Hacker is basically clueless about math ed and, I would add, writing a book that many people will gladly buy and get behind because of their feelings about math education today.I invite @nytJaneKarr, @anya1anya, and @DanaGoldstein to read @profkeithdevlin's review of "The Math Myth".https://t.co/O6V9G63sqE— Patrick Honner (@MrHonner) March 3, 2016
Hacker's original editorial Is Algebra Necessary?
Devlin's response on at The Huffington Post
And a Hacker interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education.
We don't need mathematical thinking? Really?
Edit: Another article about The Math Myth
Monday, February 22, 2016
Daily Mash-Up
Sometimes I find great ideas but don't have the time right now to process them and don't want to lose them as a set of related links. So what do I do then? I mash them up and make a blog paste out of them. To return to later.
The starter for this mash-up was this tweet. The rest follows.
The starter for this mash-up was this tweet. The rest follows.
3wks late to the blog reading party, but this, from Ben Blum-Smith, is so good: Lessons from @bowenkerins— Fawn Nguyen (@fawnpnguyen) February 22, 2016
and @dyong https://t.co/nOQRhBuRAA
- Ben Blum-Smith's Post
- PCMI Problem Sets
- Read Section 1 of THIS problem set to see the general philosophy
- About Cognitive Theft
- A reaction to Blum-Smith's post offering more ideas on grouping
- About PCMI
- Details about 2015 PCMI
- Bowen Kerins on Twitter
- Law of the Broken Futon
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Factorization in Pictures
Recent websplorations have led me to this:
Factorization Diagram
which will eventually lead me to buy this:
Factorization Diagram Print
and spend way to much time watching and thinking about this:
Factorization Diagram Visualization
and exploring here:
Data Pointed
and especially here:
Visualizations
Factorization Diagram
which will eventually lead me to buy this:
Factorization Diagram Print
and spend way to much time watching and thinking about this:
Factorization Diagram Visualization
and exploring here:
Data Pointed
and especially here:
Visualizations
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