Posts Tagged ‘math’
It IS about the technology: mathematics has computational objects
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 2, 2010
I read a lot – particularly on #edchat and #edtech on Twitter – that “it’s about the pedagogy, not about the technology.” There’s something about this that bugs me in relation to my current mathematical teaching and mathematical experience. Maybe in language or English teaching the technology is “only a tool”. I want to argue […]
Beginner's mind: seeing the mathematics
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 22, 2010
My colleague has a Ph.D. in mathematics and two young children – 9 and 11 years of age. She writes the following account of her children’s engagement with a word problem: Yesterday my 9 year old was struggling with the following problem: “Suzi and Joey had the same amount of money. Then they went shopping. […]
