Posts Tagged ‘math’
Do mathematically less able students unnecessarily complicate things?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 30, 2010
A few anecdotal experiences, separated widely in time and space, have led me to speculate that less able mathematics students might be unnecessarily complicating procedures and examples, to the point where the complication impedes their learning. Guess my number A colleague at the University of Melbourne in Australia told me, many years ago, about her […]
Make a triangle on a sphere with the largest possible sum of angles
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 23, 2010
When teaching prospective mathematics teachers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, I liked to shake up their preconceptions in mathematics, the unexamined assumptions that they had accepted as fact because they were told it was so. So one evening I set the class the problem of finding how large they could make the sum of […]
