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Central ideas of school mathematics: Algorithmic thinking
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 22, 2010
This is the second in a series of posts on central ideas of school mathematics, prompted by a joint project with my colleague Robert Hunting. Issues discussed here are ideas that I see as central to school mathematics if that subject is to avoid total disconnection with the rapidly changing world of professional and applied […]
What is the difference between remembering someone post a letter and remembering the square root of 2?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 20, 2010
This is a reproduction of a paper I spoke on at the annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, tadalafil Valencia, Spain, 1996. I think it contains a message that is worth reading today; Here is a PDF: Gary E. Davis PME20_vol2, 1996 ________________________________________________________________
