Encouraging math success for students at all language levels
Nigel Nisbet
How do we teach?
How do we learn?
What if mathematics could be taught the way the brain learns?
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“Half of the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly to vision”
Professor Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
But what if we wanted to do something more "mathematical"...
like
Algebraic Expressions
Terms
Variable
Constant
Coefficient
3x + 7
If you want students to talk...
give them something to talk about
ST Math is a foundation for a language-rich classroom environment
ST Math is the cornerstone of a Language-rich classroom environment - but it's not about the language coming at the students, it's about the language coming from the students
"Why can't we just teach math the way I learned it?"
The volume of work often necessitates computers who can perform the routine machine operations with great speed, but who need not have much logical insight into what the results should be...
Memo: "Computing Group Organizations and Practices at NACA" April 24th 1942
The old way of teaching math was to make you do it like a machine...
The new way is to understand it so you can build the machines!
To ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems.
OUR MISSION:
DCML Language Success for all Students
By Nigel Nisbet
DCML Language Success for all Students
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