Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’
Avoiding the low road in learning mathematics
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: April 9, 2011
I wrote recently about cognitive theft in mathematics, an act that teachers – including parents – often carry out that short circuits a student’s possibility of working through a problem themselves. x There’s another side to cognitive theft – an act of omission – in which students themselves often engage. Students often take away their […]
The changing nature of textbook publishing
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 28, 2011
I was told some juicy information about academic textbook publishing last week. A sales representative of a major textbook publisher discussed the medium term plans of the company as it re-thinks its role in publishing. We discussed the high price of calculus texts for students, a topic close to my heart. The new calculus book, […]
