Six effective #teaching practices: anyone disagree? #ITeachMath
Pairing graphics with words.
Young or old, all of us receive information through two primary pathways - words and graphic or pictorial representations. Student learning increases when teachers convey new material through both.
May 7, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Does someone get a dime every time the same old falsities about #education are published? theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-ki…
This one is a real (and lengthy) hoot. Hits all the rhetorical sour notes. “scientists have discovered in recent decades that acquiring factual information isn’t a useless, soul-crushing exercise; it’s the prerequisite for higher-order thinking” 🤣
May 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1979: “There is a misconception among people and school children about the nature of mathematics,” said Anneli Lax, professor of mathematics at New York University. “They consider it a matter of rules and regulations instead of thinking.”
The pressure, she said, is for pupils to come up with the right answer quickly, without time to analyze.
May 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1951: “American college students know shockingly little about the geography of this country. They know even less about the world. American or world geography is a forgotten subject in our institutions of higher learning.”
“Only one out of every four students knew even the approximate population of the world. Here the range was almost too fantastic to believe. Many thought the world had 100,000,000 or fewer people. Other listed it as above 200 billion.”
May 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do” 1983, @CollegeBoard: “In social studies, a grasp of major trends in the contemporary world such as nationalism and urbanization; the ability to recognize historical cause and effect;
a grasp of United States history in terms of the chronology and impact of political events,
Apr 3, 2023 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
Awesome article! And: take just about every single thing written about the coaching and learning of sports here, and hit ‘find/replace’ for math, and you have more of the full picture of what’s going on with #math instruction.
I’ll elaborate some parallels here: “Strict, militaristic discipline and authoritarian power with frequent outbursts of screaming and cursing” — “Strict, “get it right the first time” focus, authoritarian pedagogies with direct and indirect messages that demoralize students
2/x ... "What about pure mathematics and mathematicians who merely prove theorems? Is there any #ethical component comparable to what you find in other fields of #science?" - R. Hersh in Experiencing #Mathematics
