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A little bit of pi(e)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 15, 2010
My wife likes to eat at Not Your Average Joe’s on Route 6 in Dartmouth, Massachusetss. I’m a vegetarian so my choices are more lmited. NYAJ has passable choices for a vegetarian, inlcuding pizzas. Usually a 10″ garden pizza does me. When I first started ordering pizzas from Joe’s I was still teaching pre-service elementary […]
Reducing cognitive load in algebra
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 13, 2010
Many years ago I used to get very annoyed with John Sweller, an Australian academic who aggressively pushed his idea of cognitive load as a panacea for problem solving in mathematics. John upset a lot of people in the Australian mathematics education community because they felt he was talking about routine problems, and not what […]
