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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 […]
Focus and intention
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 12, 2010
One of the reasons I talk a lot less in class than I used to is because, in my experience, my students do not have good listening skills. The main reason I talk less is because I am listening more – listening to student concerns, watching for the creased brow, the frown, as another student […]
