Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’
A rush of connections and insights, a glorious moment of clarity
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 19, 2010
Sandra was a pre-service elementary teacher at Rutgers in New Jersey. She came to mathematics methods classes with relatively low expectations: “When I enrolled in this class back in September, I thought I was signing up for a three-month crash course in the mechanics of mathematics -something which had always eluded me. At that time […]
Reducing cognitive load in algebra
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 13, 2010
Many years ago I used to get very annoyed with John Sweller, an Australian academic who aggressively pushed his idea of cognitive load as a panacea for problem solving in mathematics. John upset a lot of people in the Australian mathematics education community because they felt he was talking about routine problems, and not what […]
