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Jun 28

How gesture and movement help us think

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning

From Annie Murphy Paul @anniemurphypaul Exciting new ideas about how gesture and movement help us think Jordan Ellenberg hates PowerPoint slides. And whiteboards. For him (and for his fellow math professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), it’s an old-fashioned blackboard or bust. “It’s part of the folk wisdom of mathematicians,” he told me in a …

annie murphy paul, brain, gesture, Jordan Ellenberg

Feb 08

Instrumental and Relational Understanding

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Learning

Good article on instrumental and relational understanding. Focus on Relational Understanding

understanding

Aug 08

Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. (And by the way your son, too.)

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Educational Research, Learning, mathematical reasoning

Good opinion-editorial piece. I think it does deemphasize conceptual understanding problem-solving and may over-emphasize practice, but overall this is a good article. I like the analogy of doing math in playing a musical instrument. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/stem-girls-math-practice.html

girls

Sep 19

Stick that in your head

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Learning, Problem Solving

Here’s a ‘quote’ I came up with on one of my runs one day. Someday I should turn this into a lecture. Perhaps uttered at the end of a class period: Stick that in your head, so that when you need it, you’ll have it. More fully: Stick that in your head, so that when …

Mar 23

Parenting, math, and the Growth Mindset

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Learning, Motivation

https://www.youcubed.org/handout-for-parents/

growth mindset, number sense, parent

Mar 18

Evidence Based Teaching Strategies

By drjimo in Assessment, Brain-based-learning, Educational Research, Learning, Teaching

Top 10 Evidence Based Teaching Strategies http://www.evidencebasedteaching.org.au/evidence-based-teaching-strategies/

Sep 19

I want math to be realistic and meaningful

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Educational Research, Learning, mathematical reasoning, Motivation, Teaching

realistic: I take this from Flickr from CU-Boulder and Freudenthal Institute US hosted the Fifth Realistic Mathematics Education conference, or RME5, in September of 2015. https://www.flickr.com/photos/downclimb/sets/72157656469778994/ Realistic: imaginable, realizable, not just “real-world” Meaningful: significant, relevant, important, consequential, telling, material, valid, worthwhile (antonyms: inconsequential) 1. having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose. “making our …

Freudenthal

Jun 26

Notes from Ted Talk on Memory.

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning

http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do#t-1205064 Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do See the Notes-from-Ted-Talk-on-Memory I took.

memory

Mar 24

5 Practical Learning Tips Based On How People Do–And Don’t–Learn

By drjimo in Brain-based-learning, Learning

5 Practical Learning Tips Based On How People Do–And Don’t–Learn 5 Practical Learning Tips Based On How People Do–And Don’t–Learn