Rethinking math Education:
Preparing Children for Tomorrow
Math education answers the question
"How do we teach?"
It needs to answer the question
"How do we learn?"
Schema
What's the highest number you can count to using your fingers?
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STUDENT
DISCOURSE
Creative
DISEQUILIBRIUM
Reasoning
ORIGINAL THINKING
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"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!
See Math. Do Math. Love Math.
To ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems.
OUR MISSION:
CMC 2024 Rethinking Math Education
By Nigel Nisbet
CMC 2024 Rethinking Math Education
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