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Counting-on: a basic counting skill
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 9, 2010
5 year old Tim’s dad asked him: “Tim, you can see 8 crackers on the table. How many more would you need to have 13 crackers?†As he worked on this problem Tim moved his jaw from side to side 5 times, talking very quietly as he did, and then said: “Five”. What was Tim […]
It IS about the technology: mathematics has computational objects
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 2, 2010
I read a lot – particularly on #edchat and #edtech on Twitter – that “it’s about the pedagogy, not about the technology.” There’s something about this that bugs me in relation to my current mathematical teaching and mathematical experience. Maybe in language or English teaching the technology is “only a tool”. I want to argue […]
