Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’
Using the same notation for different things, and then treating them as the same anyway
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: August 16, 2011
On the last Twitter #mathchat there seemed to me to be a fair amount of confusion about what constitutes a fraction. Commonly, people were treating any expression of the form as a fraction, no matter what were . Confusion about fractions is something I’ve experienced in many places, in many contexts. The confusion seems to […]
Who’s kidding who? What do tests test?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 7, 2011
What does a test “test”? All over the world, at all levels of education, mathematics teachers set tests for their students, and give grades on the basis of those tests. Tests are usually thought to be reliable indicators (if not measures) of how well students engage with the material being taught to them, and is […]
