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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 7  years after he wrote this piece. I hope to post very soon an account some of […]

A memory-based model for aspects of mathematics teaching

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 31, 2009

This is a paper written for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference in 2000. I am reproducing it here because I think it says something of value to mathematics teachers. ___________________________________________________________________________________ A memory-based model for aspects of mathematics teaching Gary Davis, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK David Hill, Hordle Walhampton School, Lymington, UK Nigel Smith, […]