Archive for January 2010
Beginner's mind: seeing the mathematics
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 22, 2010
My colleague has a Ph.D. in mathematics and two young children – 9 and 11 years of age. She writes the following account of her children’s engagement with a word problem: Yesterday my 9 year old was struggling with the following problem: “Suzi and Joey had the same amount of money. Then they went shopping. […]
How about infinity plus one?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 21, 2010
Corina Silveira came from Argentina to carry out research for her doctorate in mathematics education at the University of Southampton in England. Corina was interested in how children developed an informal sense of number through their world experiences – particularly seeing adults deal with prices of goods and vehicles, and seeing telephone numbers, street numbers, […]
