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What to do when a teenager gets turned off mathematics?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 2, 2010
Especially one who likes it, but who is turned off by repetitive drill … Jeanne Bernish has a 14 year old son who is  very good at math ( accelerated) but just doesn’t like it. He is into gaming, and is tired of drills. She feels he will probably be so turned off by mathematics […]
How and what shall we teach?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 1, 2010
Today I am posting something written around 1995 by my friend and colleague Nigel Smith, who taught mathematics at Hordle-Walhampton School in Lymington, and at Twyford School in Winchester, England. Nigel died of brain cancer, aged 44, about 7Â years after he wrote this piece. I hope to post very soon an account some of […]
