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Category Archives: Brain-based-learning
How gesture and movement help us think
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 … Continue reading
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Instrumental and Relational Understanding
Good article on instrumental and relational understanding. Focus on Relational Understanding
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Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. (And by the way your son, too.)
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
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Stick that in your head
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 … Continue reading
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Parenting, math, and the Growth Mindset
https://www.youcubed.org/handout-for-parents/
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Evidence Based Teaching Strategies
Top 10 Evidence Based Teaching Strategies http://www.evidencebasedteaching.org.au/evidence-based-teaching-strategies/
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I want math to be realistic and meaningful
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, … Continue reading
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Notes from Ted Talk on Memory.
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.
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 5 Practical Learning Tips Based On How People Do–And Don’t–Learn
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