This is an exciting time of great experimentation by many people to seek out a variety of good active learning teaching techniques for mathematics. What I can contribute is an evolutionary process of my own questioning, experience, reaction, and adaptation
The Map is not the Territory
“There’s nothing more real to you than your subjective experience of reality and there’s nothing more opaque to science”.1 – Michael Pollan If this is true, and I think it would be silly to argue otherwise, then any person should
The Conflict in Teachers Between What Feels Right & What Probably Is Right
After my last post I had a discussion with a friend and he said the following: I once raised the point with a teacher [that Learning Styles Theories lacked any corroborating evidence] and the response was that theory didn’t need
Kamaji & Maths: The Power of Habit in Problem-Solving
In Charles Duhigg’s book, ‘The Power of Habit’, he lays out a compelling argument both for the powerful and simplicity of habits. They seem to happen without requiring any cognitive output, prompted by some unbeknownst thing working in the back