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Archive for November 2010

You can lead a student to a pattern, but can you make them see it?

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 22, 2010

November 11, 2010, @druinok tweeted about a High School student not able to see or express a simple linear pattern: @druinok how do you help a kid that doesn’t see the pattern in input/output tables? What follows is a clutch of responses, not necessarily in chronological order: @druinok given the table of (0, 3), (2, […]

Thinking quantitatively to solve problems: Conrad Wolfram

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 21, 2010

A lovely TED talk by Conrad Wolfram on what mathematics teaching and learning should be about in a digital era: