Clik here to view.
Math teachers are teachers of language
On Wednesday, the A2I team at New Visions participated in an excellent workshop from Harold Asturias on English language learners in a mathematics classroom. Harold made some points about the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mathematical mistakes
(Image base created by Curran Kelleher) In the course I am taking online, How to Learn Mathematics, one of the assignments is to create a poster that highlights the importance of mistake making during...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pseudoteaching and the Edutainer
I recently came across Frank Noschese and John Burk's collection of posts on Pseudoteaching. In Frank and John's words:What is pseudoteaching? This term was inspired by Dan Meyer’s pseudocontext, which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Questions to ask while problem solving
I'm working on a set of possible questions one can ask their students (and teach their students to ask themselves) while they are problem solving in math. Note that these questions are related to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why am I using LinkedIn anyway?
I don't see what value, if any, my time spent managing my LinkedIn profile has given me. I have nearly 1000 connections on the site now, but I have only used it to contact people a few times, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is developmentally appropriate?
(This is my son learning how to program in Turtle Art, at age 4)As educators, we give work to students based on what we consider to be developmentally appropriate, and what we feel they have the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Balance puzzle
I created a new puzzle, based on something I played with when I was at the New York Hall of Science. The idea of the puzzle is that given three numbers, you are trying to balance both sides of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Teaching Gap
In the fall of 1994, after several months of watching tapes, the project staff met to present some preliminary impressions and interpretations. We invited distinguished researchers and educators from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How do you help develop mathematical curiosity?
A recent New York Times article talks about how to fall in love with math. Related to this issue is how to develop mathematical curiousity in your students as a math teacher. In no particular order,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There are no aha moments
If we understand learning to be the developing of neural connections in the brain, then necessarily there cannot be true aha moments (or more accurately, every moment is an aha moment).Lets suppose...
View Article
