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, […]
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 19, 2010
Sandra was a pre-service elementary teacher at Rutgers in New Jersey. She came to mathematics methods classes with relatively low expectations: “When I enrolled in this class back in September, I thought I was signing up for a three-month crash course in the mechanics of mathematics -something which had always eluded me. At that time […]