Posts Tagged ‘teaching’
A rush of connections and insights, a glorious moment of clarity
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 […]
Computational media: the universal acid of mathematics teaching (1)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 17, 2009
The times they are a-changing In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett discusses a fantasy universal acid that eats through and transforms  all containers into which it is placed. He applies this notion of universal transformation to Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and writes: “… it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake […]
