Interesting math discussion.
Published: 2007-03-07
Category: Life and stuff
Tags: education, math, chile, netherlands
Language: [English]
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There is a very interesting discusion going-on on youtube (first time I
see "inteligent use" of this media). It's about how to do to teach
Math. concerned parents, math teachers and university profesors each
have made a comentary about this issue. Very interesting stuff.
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
I remmeber my own math education in the Netherlands. It was always a
unordered mish-mash ideas and algorithms. Maybe it was just me,
and I
couldn't see the forest from the trees. But maybe not. One of the nice
things of doing math in a chilean university was to get "the
traditional" aproach to it all. No nonsence, repeat until you drop,
kind of training. But it certainly worked for me. I feel much more
comfortable with math and numbers in general now. It was really
something I needed, I guess.
Protocultura.cl
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2007-03-13
carmi
It is true that the way math is taught in Chile is
very much "to the bone". Repeat the exercises over and
over again until you master them.
It may be also relevant to teach students the thinking
patterns being enhanced WHILE they exercise:
logic, structured thinking, problem solving..
It can't be all about the numbers, right?
