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From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...
The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in geometry. Along with it are concepts such as rotation and translation. It was reflection, however, that I ...
The opportunity to reflect on what they know helps students strengthen their mathematical understanding and supports ...
I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante . Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a ...
But in middle school, being tracked into lower-level courses contradicted my math identity and eroded my confidence to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy: I became a lower-level math ...
Mathematical Cultures, The London Meetings 2012-2014 A very recently published book "Mathematical Cultures, London Meetings 2012-2014," edited by Brendan Larvor, contains a chapter titled "Mathematics ...
David M. Bressoud, Historical Reflections on Teaching the Fundamental Theorem of IntegralCalculus, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 118, No. 2 (February 2011), pp. 99-115 ...
Thomas J. Fararo, Reflections on Mathematical Sociology, Sociological Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue: Mathematics in Thinking about Sociology (Mar., 1997), pp ...
Problem-Solving Through Math Explanations Writing math explanations allows you to showcase your problem-solving skills and share your mathematical journey with others.
Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...