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Cognitive theft in mathematics teaching
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: April 6, 2011
The person who truly taught me to teach mathematics in a deeper and more productive way is W. Gary Martin. He showed me, by example, how to stop talking so much about my own understanding, and listen carefully to student understanding. In particular, he demonstrated for me how, when a student is presenting their own […]
A clutch of mathematical Haiku
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: April 5, 2011
I’m hoping that teachers of mathematics, and their students, will be inspired to write a few Haiku describing life in the mathematical world. Inspired by the following excellent (non mathematical) Haiku of Colin T. Graham (@ColinTGraham): Occluding stratus, Trees shivering in the wind. And yet, there is green. I decided to chance my arm at […]
