Posts Tagged ‘computation’
Computational media: the universal acid of mathematics teaching (3)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 23, 2009
Calculators and computers as shortcuts I recently sent out the following tweet: republicofmath Should we continue to focus on basics of pencil and paper calculation, especially in early years? http://bit.ly/5iqPYL #math #technology and got the following replies: stephenwuebker @republicofmath yes! One needs to know how and why calculations work before taking shortcuts w/ computers and […]
Computational media: the universal acid of mathematics teaching (1)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 17, 2009
The times they are a-changing In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett discusses a fantasy universal acid that eats through and transforms  all containers into which it is placed. He applies this notion of universal transformation to Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and writes: “… it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake […]
